Bangladeshi woman conquers Imja-Tse peak
Following in the footsteps of Everest conquerors Nishat Majumdar and Wasfia Nazreen, another Bangladeshi female took an apparently same venture and conquered Himalayas' Imja-Tse peak yesterday.
Sadia Sultana, 31, conquered the 6,187 metre high peak, also known as Island Peak, in Nepal. The peak is considered to be one of the deadliest to conquer.
Plan Bangladesh's Girls Power Project (GPP), a 5-year project to end gender-based violence, sponsored the expedition, said a press release.
Sadia started her adventure from Kathmandu on October 12.
She is the first woman in Bangladesh to have completed basic and advanced training from the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling.
She led a 7-member women's group to the Everest Base Camp in 2003 and won the Anannya award for her contributions to mountaineering in 2009.
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