KATHMANDU, APRIL 16
Six Nepali women scaled Mount Annapurna today, scripting history as first Nepali women to stand atop the 8,091-metre peak.
Photojournalist Purnima Shrestha, Passang Lhamu Sherpa, Dabhuti Sherpa, Sharmila Syangtan Tamang, Dawa Yangjum Sherpa and Nepal Mountaineering Association's vice-president Maya Sherpa successfully climbed the world's tenth highest on Friday.
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In the October of 1978, Vera Komarkova and Irene Miller from the United States had, in a historic expedition, successfully climbed Annapurna to become the first women and the first Americans to do so.
Over 60 other climbers scaled Annapurna in the first successful summit this season.
Read more: Nepal records season's first summit of 8000-metre peak as climbers scale Mt Annapurna
