[chottala.com] Second Bangladeshi woman on Everest

Second Bangladeshi woman on Everest

Wasfia NazreenStar Online Report

Wasfia Nazreen has become the second Bangladeshi woman to scale the Mount Everest just a week after the feat of Nishat Majumder.

Wasfia reached the summit at 6:41am Bangladesh time on Saturday, Korvi Rakshand, spokesperson of Bangladesh Seven Summits' campaign which arranged the trekking, told The Daily Star.

On May 19, Nishat Majumder conquered the Mount Everest as the first Bangladeshi woman.Nishat and her fellow mountaineer MA Muhit, started trekking towards Kathmandu Friday morning from the base camp.

Muhit is the first Bangladeshi to scale the mountain twice and from both sides. He first scaled the mountain peak on May 21 last year.

Wasfia phoned me from her satellite phone around 7:00am to share her feat with me, Rakshand told The Daily Star around 8:00am Saturday.

Wasfia left the base camp on Monday for her adventure to scale the world's highest peak.

She has to defer her climb to the summit by a day due to inclement weather on Friday.

Musa Ibrahim is the first Bangladeshi to conquer the Everest on May 23, 2010.

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Abdul Mannan
Educator-Researcher-Writer-Analyst
Dhaka
Bangladesh

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