Nepal teen breaks record by climbing Earth's highest mountains

The 18-year-old has become the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world's 8,000m peaks.

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Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, stood atop Tibet’s Mount Shishapangma at about 06:05 local time on Wednesday.

In doing so, he became the latest of just a few dozen people to have scaled all of the world’s “eight-thousanders” - the 14 mountains that the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) recognises as more than 8,000 metres above sea level.

Sherpa, who started climbing high-altitude mountains at the age of 16, summited all eight-thousanders in 740 days.

He reached the peak of Nepal’s Manaslu, the world's eighth-highest mountain, on 30 September, 2022 - shortly after finishing his 10th-grade high school exams.

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