Two Nepali summiters eye world records

Two Nepali summiters Lhakpa Sherpa and Mingma Sherpa are on their way to create history as top summiters in the world.
"I am flying to Pakistan on Friday to scale two peaks above 8,000 metres," said Mingma (32), who has already scaled 11 of the 14 peaks above 8,000 metres. He is planning to scale Nanga Parbat (8,125 metres) and Gasherbrum-I also called K5 (8,080 metres in Pakistan before returning to scale the last among the 14, Mt Kanchanchanjunga, in his list.
The eight-thousanders' club has only 24 members till date and Mingma has only three peaks to scale to be the member of the prestigious club. The eight-thousanders are fourteen independent mountains on earth that are more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) high above sea level. They are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia.
Out of the 14 eight-thousanders, eight — Mt Everest (8,848m), Kanchenjunga (8,598m), Makalu (8,485m), Lhotse (8,501m), Cho Oyu (8,188m), Dhaulagiri (8,137m), Manaslu (8163m) and Annapurna (8,091m) — are in Nepal.
Similarly, after four years' rest from her career as a mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa — the only Nepali woman to scale Mt Everest six times from 2000 to 2006 — is headed for another record. She will be attempting to scale Mt K2 (8,611 metres) — the second highest peak in the world. She has been on top of the world — Mt Everest — for the sixth time in 2006. She will be the first Nepali woman and the third woman climber in the world to summit the Mt K2, considered very dangerous to climb.
Till date, 3,410 people have scaled the Mt Everest for 5,060 times after Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay scaled the peak for the first time in 1953.