Everest Adventure
Wasfia Nazreen may summit today
Nishat Majumder and her fellow mountaineer MA Mohit started trekking towards Kathmandu yesterday morning from the base camp, while another Bangladeshi woman mountaineer, Wasfia Nazreen, is expected to reach summit this morning.
If Wasfia, who left the base camp on Monday, reaches the top, she will be the second Bangladeshi woman to achieve the feat after Nishat, who scaled the mountain peak on May 19.
Wasfia on Thursday deferred her quest by a day due to inclement weather.
"We hope Wasfia will push for the summit tonight [Friday] and will reach the summit tomorrow [Saturday] morning," Korvi Rakshand, spokesperson of Bangladesh on Seven Summits' campaign, which arranged the trekking, told The Daily Star last night.
Meanwhile, after staying three nights at the base camp at around 5,350 metre above the sea level Nishat and Mohit had started for Kathmandu yesterday.
"I have come to know that Nishat and Mohit have started descending from the base camp today [Friday] morning," said Premba Dorje Sherpa, whose brother Mingmaa Gyelge Sherpa is acting as the guide for the duo.
Muhit as the first Bangladeshi scaled the mountain twice and from both sides. He first scaled the mountain peak on May 21 last year.
Musa Ibrahim was the first Bangladeshi to conquer the Everest on May 23, 2010.
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