What you don't know about the guy who set the speed record on Everest...

By now you know that Mr. Pemba Dorjee Sherpa (27 yrs), a High Altitude Sherpa of "Dream Everest Expedition 2004" set a new speed record by completing the distance from Everest Base Camp to the summit in 8 hours and 10 minutes by starting at 6 P.M. on 20th May 2004 and reaching the summit at 02.10 A.M. on 21st May 2004.

What you probably missed was on that on May 16, just 5 days earlier Mr. Pemba Dorjee Sherpa summited Everest with the "Dream Everest Expedition 2004" without oxygen!!!

What a year for Mr. Pemba Dorjee Sherpa...

In addition Mr Nuru Wangchu Sherpa was also summited without oxygen on the "Dream Everest Expedition 2004" on May 16th..

The Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation has the pleasure to release this news that Mr. Pemba Dorjee Sherpa (27 yrs), a High Altitude Sherpa of "Dream Everest Expedition 2004" from Gaurishankar - 1, Dolakha, Nepal has been successful to summit Mt. Sagarmatha (Everest), the highest (8848 m.) peak of the World, by setting a new world record of fastest climbing. He completed the distance from Sagarmatha Base Camp to the summit in 8 hours and 10 minutes by starting at 6 P.M. on 20th May 2004 and reaching the summit at 02.10 A.M. on 21st May 2004.

The previous world record was 10 hours 56 minutes and 46 seconds set by Mr. Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa (36 yrs) Climbing Sirdar from Solukhumbu on 25th May 2003.

Mr. Pemba Dorjee Sherpa, a High Altitude Sherpa of ten members "Dream Everest Expedition 2004" Team was permitted to climb Mt. Everest from South East Ridge for the period of seventy-five days from 25th March 2004 under the leadership of Mr. Robert Huygh, Ternat, Belgium. The handling agency of this Expedition Team is Asian Trekking P. Ltd., Kathmandu, Nepal.

 

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