The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice in 5 days
Most people don’t make it to the top of the world once.
But mother-of-two Anshu Jamsenpa, aged 38, has done it five times, all from the South Col route on the Nepalese side of Mount Everest — an incredible feat for any mountaineer.
This year, she broke a world record and made global headlines when she became the first woman to conquer the 29,028-feet-tall (8,848 meter) Himalayan giant twice in five days — first on May 16, and then again on May 21.
Astonishingly, this wasn’t her first double ascent on a single trip.
In 2011, Jamsenpa summited the tallest mountain in the world on May 12 and May 21. She subsequently made a single summit in 2013.
Jamsenpa attributes her amazing achievements to the connection climbing Everest gives her to her faith.
“I always think that I am very close to god, I am getting a blessing,” Jamsenpa tells CNN of her emotional state while on the mountain. “I only feel that whenever I am at the top.”
