Nepali teenager becomes youngest to climb world's 8,000m peaks

Nima Rinji Sherpa reached the summit of Tibet's 8,027-metre-high Shisha Pangma on October 9, completing his mission to stand on the world's highest peaks. Cheering crowds hailed an 18-year-old Nepali mountaineer as a hero as he returned home Monday. Nepal's climbing community also welcomed several others who returned after completing the summit of 14 peaks.

Sherpa is no stranger to the mountains, hailing from a family of record-holding mountaineers, who also now run Nepal's largest mountaineering expedition company. The record was previously held by another Nepali climber, 'David' Sherpa. He achieved it in 2019, at the age of 30.