{"id":169274,"date":"2025-01-25T12:36:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=169274"},"modified":"2025-01-25T12:36:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-25T07:06:40","slug":"young-sherpa-conquers-worlds-tallest-mountains-at-18","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/young-sherpa-conquers-worlds-tallest-mountains-at-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Sherpa Conquers World\u2019s Tallest Mountains at 18"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>An 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer, Nima Rinji Sherpa, made history on Wednesday by becoming the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world\u2019s 8,000-meter (26,246-foot) peaks. His remarkable achievement was sealed after successfully reaching the summit of Tibet\u2019s 26,335-foot Shisha Pangma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Summit Success<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nima Rinji Sherpa reached the summit of Tibet\u2019s 26,335-foot\u00a0<strong>Shisha Pangma\u00a0<\/strong>on October 9, 2024.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This was the final climb needed to complete his journey of conquering all 14 of the world\u2019s \u201ceight-thousanders.\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Nima\u2019s father, Tashi Sherpa, expressed his confidence in his son\u2019s success, stating, \u201cHe had trained well, and I was confident he would do it.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Nima\u2019s Climbing Journey<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Nima began high-altitude climbing at the age of 16, scaling Mount Manaslu in August 2022.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>By June 2024, he had reached the summit of his 13th mountain, Kanchenjunga, the world\u2019s third-highest peak.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In 2023, Nima summited Mount Everest (29,032 feet), the world\u2019s tallest mountain, within a day of also climbing Mount Lhotse (27,940 feet), another of the eight-thousanders<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer, Nima Rinji Sherpa, made history on Wednesday by becoming the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world\u2019s 8,000-meter (26,246-foot) peaks. His remarkable achievement was sealed after successfully reaching the summit of Tibet\u2019s 26,335-foot Shisha Pangma. Summit Success Nima\u2019s Climbing Journey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":419,"featured_media":169275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5244],"tags":[4939],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-169274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-october-2024","tag-ranks-report-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/419"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169276,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169274\/revisions\/169276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169274"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=169274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}