KATHMANDU, JANUARY 14

Three brothers from Nepal - Mingma, Chhang Dawa, and Tashi Lakpa Sherpa -successfully scaled the highest mountain in Antartica, Mt Vinson (4,892 m), on Thursday.

The team shared an update that they finally made a successful ascent of Mt Vinson on January 13 at 6:30pm (Chile time) after spending a month in Antarctica. The team had also skied to the South Pole (90°S- Last Degree) on January 2, as they planned for their mission and have now become the first three siblings to complete the journey: Ski to the South pole and climb Mt Vinson.

The Sherpa siblings embarked on this journey on December 13 and departed from Kathmandu to join an expedition to Antarctica with the mission to climb seven summits on seven continents.

Mt Vinson, the highest peak in Antarctica Continent and in the South Pole, is recognised as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole and is one of the two points where Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface.

Two of the three brothers - Mingma and Chhang Dawa Sherpa - also hold the Guinness World Record title 'World's First Siblings to Climb All 8000ers'. Tashi Lakpa Sherpa, on the other hand, holds the Guinness record for climbing Mt Everest at the age of 20 without using supplementary oxygen.

The siblings also plan to launch an expedition to the North Pole in the spring of 2022.

A version of this article appears in the print on January 15, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.