The Nepal Weekly 
January 7, 2025
Veteran summitteer Mingma G. Sherpa, who scaled all 14 eight thousanders including highest peaks of all seven continents without supplement oxygen was felicitated amid a programme in Kathmandu on Friday.
Minister of State for TOurism, Culture and Civil Aviation Arun Kumar Chaudhary felicitated 37 year old summitteer Mingma amids a programme organized by Nepal Mountaineering Association in a boutique hotel in Kathmandu.
Mingma, born in Rolwaling Rural Municipality of Dolakha district, first climbed the Everest (8,848.86 m), the highest peak in the world, in 2007 and completed his mission by climbing Mt. Shisha Pangma (8,027 m) on October 4, 2024. Among the 14 eight thousanders eight lie in Nepal, five in Pakistan and one in China.
A mountain guide by profession, Mingma has climbed Everest for six times. He is also the owner of Imagine Nepal, a mountaineering agency in Nepal. He also recently performed skin on the South Pole to become the third Nepali to do so. He had completed 111 km ski in the South Pole of Antarctica.
In a question he said, he was inspired to complete 14 eight thousands without oxygen bottle, because before him no Nepalese has done so. “Being a citizen of a mountainous country Nepal, I ventured to complete 14 eight thousanders without oxygen cylinder to enhance the prestige of my country in international arena,” he told The Nepal Weekly.
Mingma had survived after reaching close to the death while scaling Mt. Chobutse in 2015. I had to wait for 43 hours without water and food on the peak of Chobutse (6,686 m) as the weather was too bad for descent and after the weather became clear for just one hour I descended and a rescue helicopter found me and took back to the base camp,” recalls Mingma. He asked the government to establish a well-equipped permanent rescue team to rescue the climbers who faces emergency, so as to promote mountain tourism in the country. The lives of many Sherpas are at risk in absence of the well-equipped rescue team, he pointed out.
Mingma doesn’t only provide mountain guide service in Nepal but also in foreign country as well. He had climbed all the mountains not as a climber but as a climbing guide. He also scaled Mt. Shisha Pangma in China while guiding other international climbers. Nepalese Sherpa can have better opportunity in foreign country as well working as a mountain guide. I have opened the door for that, he added.
