With her successful ascent of Mt Everest this morning, Mandy Ramsden has become the first South African woman to bag all Seven Summits. According to the Adventure Consultants website, she topped out around 07h45 (Nepal time) on Saturday, 22 May 2010. By 13h00 she was back at Camp 4 on the South Col. She’ll rest today and descent to Camp 2 tomorrow. Mandy was joined by the Adventure Consultants team of two other ‘clients’, two guides and seven climbing Sherpas.
This weather window is a good one with clear skies and low winds. There are literally over a hundred people summiting. This includes Jordan Romero, 13-year old son of adventure racers Paul Romero and Karen Ludgren. They were with Jordan when he summited. He’s the youngest person to summit this mountain. That makes it his 7th summit (he’s going for all 8). Only Mt Vinson in Antarctica left.
Apa Sherpa bettered the existing ‘most Everest summits’ record, which he holds, by adding another to make this his 20th.
More on this Everest season on ExplorersWeb.