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Filipinas reach Nepal base camp, set world recordFriday - 18th May 2007 |
| The first Filipino women to reach the summit of Mount Everest set another world record Friday by becoming the first women to traverse the two main routes to the world's highest mountain. Noelle Wenceslao, Carina Dayondon and Janet Belarmino reached Everest Base Camp in Nepal before 6 p.m. Manila time. Belarmino sobbed as she recounted the ordeal of climbing the mountain just five months after she gave birth to her first baby. "Napakahirap kaya masaya ako na makakabalik na kami (It was very difficult that is why I'm glad that we can now come back)," she told radio DZMM. Team leader Art Valdez said the three set two world records in Everest history. They are the first Filipinas and first ASEAN women to reach the summit of Mount Everest and the first women to cross the mountain from the north route in Tibet to the south route in Nepal. Crossing the mountain from Tibet to Nepal has only been done by a handful of mountaineers – all of them men. The traverse posed a bigger challenge for the women as they passed an unfamiliar route during the descent. Wenceslao was the first to reach the summit at 6:10 a.m. Nepal time (8:10 a.m. in Manila) on Wednesday followed by Carina Dayondon at 6:20 a.m. (8:20 a.m. in Manila). Belarmino reached the summit three hours later after she had to fall in line because a lot of people wanted to reach the summit. First scaled in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the 29,035-foot peak has now been summitted 3,067 times. This year, around 550 people will be attempting the peak from both Nepal—where a peace deal signed last year with Maoist rebels has brought an end to a decade of civil war—and via the northern flank in China. In 2006 11 people were killed while this year one sherpa died while preparing for commercial expeditions. |
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