Teacher Becomes Fastest Woman To Climb Mount Everest
A teacher from Hong Kong has become the fastest woman to climb Mount Everest. Tsang Yin-hung reached the top of the world’s highest peak in 25 hours and 50 minutes, beating the old record set by a woman from Nepal by more than 13 hours.
The 45-year-old educator only took two breaks to change clothes in her trek from the base camp to the summit, which she reached on May 23rd. It was the second time she tried to scale the mountain recently, bad weather forced her to turn around during a previous trip earlier in the month. Tsang says she didn’t encounter many other climbers on her way to the highest camp at South Col and after that, she only ran into people on their way down so they didn’t slow her down as she scaled the mountain.
Despite her impressive climbing time, Tsang says she wasn’t looking to break any records and that she just feels relieved and happy. She began training as a mountaineer 11 years ago and first climbed Everest in 2017. “For the summit, it is not just your ability, team work,” she explains, “I think luck is very important.”
