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Sanu Sherpa is the first person to climb two of the world’s 8,000-meter mountains, which is the ultimate goal for ambitious climbers and only one of less than 50 people who have accomplished the accomplishment. Following his historic double ascent of the eight-thousanders, as the 14 peaks are commonly known, the Nepali climber last month reached the top of Pakistan’s Gasherbrum II (8,035 meters, 26,362 feet). He was leading a paying customer, this time a climber from Japan, to the summit as usual.
The 47-year-old told AFP that what she had accomplished was not insurmountable. “I was only carrying out my job,”
Sherpa led a South Korean expedition to the summit of Cho Oyu in 2006 after starting out as a porter and kitchen assistant. This was his first ascent of an 8,000-meter peak.
I thought the Korean climbers wouldn’t be able to reach the peak, but I had to since I wouldn’t have a job if I didn’t succeed, he added.
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The backbone of the climbing profession in the Himalayas is thought to be Nepali guides, who are typically ethnic Sherpas from the valleys surrounding Everest. They carry the bulk of the supplies, fix ropes, and fix ladders.
On Nepal’s eight eight-thousanders, 14 individuals every year pass away on average. A third of those who pass away on Everest are Nepali porters and guides, highlighting the risks they endure to fulfil their clients’ aspirations of climbing the highest mountains in the world.
Cattle farmer
Sherpa was born and raised in eastern Nepal’s Sankhuwasabha district, a desolate and isolated rural region that is home to Makalu, the fifth-highest mountain in the world.
When he was 30 years old, many of his peers were earning more money on the peaks, while he was cultivating yaks, corn, and potatoes.
Eventually, he made the decision to do the same, thinking that the job would enable him to maintain his large family of eight while also achieving his lifelong ambition to “wear mountain gear.”
He climbed Cho Oyu in hand-me-down boots from another climber, which opened the door for him to become a guide on other eight-thousanders.
He had double summited half of the 14 peaks by 2019, and a foreign climber advised him to attempt to finish the set.
