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Record-setting Sherpa guide sets a new climbing goal for the world's highest peaks
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Nepal's sherpa guide Tenjen Sherpa, 35, who with Norwegian climber Kristin Harila climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains in record time, poses during an interview with the Associated Press in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. Sherpa and Harila shattered the record for the fastest climb of the 14 mountains more than 8,000 meters (about 26,000 feet) high when they topped Mount K2 in Pakistan late last month. The previous record was 189 days, and the pair did it in 92 days. - photo by AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa guide who climbed the world's 14 tallest mountains in record time is eyeing another record, looking to become the youngest person to scale all those peaks twice. Tenjen Sherpa, 35, and Norwegian climber Kristin Harila, 37, shattered the record for the fastest climb of the 14 mountains more than 8,000 meters (about 26,000 feet) high when they topped Mount K2 in Pakistan late last month. The previous record was 189 days, and the pair did it in 92 days.