West Hartford Woman Climbs Mount Everest for Record Seventh Time

West Hartford’s Lhakpa Sherpa, who has worked as a cashier at a 7-Eleven, climbed Mount Everest for the seventh time early Friday morning to break her own record as the world’s most successful female Everest climber.

Sherpa accomplished the feat at about 5 a.m. this morning, the website for 7 Summits Adventure, the expedition organizer, announced.

Sherpa, who is in her early 40s, was among 18 climbers who reached the peak on Friday morning from the northern side in Tibet.

Sherpa, who also worked as a housekeeper for an in-home health care service, first scaled Mount Everest in 2000.

In fact, in that trip, she became the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and make it back down alive, according to a profile by Outside Magazine.

She last scaled Mount Everest in 2006 prior to Friday morning’s feat.

Read more about Sherpa’s fascinating story in the extensive profile on Outside Magazine’s website here.

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