Kathmandu, May 24

French climber Elisabeth Revol, who was dramatically rescued last year from Pakistan’s Mount Nanga Parbat, scaled Mt Lhotse this morning, a day after reaching the top of Mt Everest, her expedition organiser said.

“She summited Mt Everest yesterday and reached the top of Mt Lhotse this morning. Her health is well and she is heading down from Camp III now,” Rishi Ram Bhandari of Satori Adventures told AFP.

Mt Everest and Lhotse share the same path until diverting at South Col at 7,900 metres.

Revol was attempting to summit the mountains without supplemental oxygen — becoming the first French woman to do so — but Bhandari could not immediately confirm if she was able to do so.

Her Everest ascent clashed with dozens of other teams taking advantage of clear weather, and climbers lined up for hours to reach the top — risking frostbite and altitude sickness. Last year, Revol and Polish climber Tomek Mackiewicz were attempting to scale the 8,125-metre Nanga Parbat in winter, when they ran into trouble.

She had been forced to separate from Mackiewicz, who was suffering from snow blindness and was coughing up blood, a sign of oedema, or acute mountain sickness. Mackiewicz was never seen again.

The team of elite Polish climbers found her in a daring night rescue after she had already spent two days above 6,000 metres without a tent on the world’s ninth-highest mountain.