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10-Member, All-Women’s Team From Nepal, First Ever Of Kind To Successfully Climb Mt. Everest |
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Written by Keya Acharya - IPS
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Friday, 03 April 2009 |
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Article Source: IPS - InterPress Service
Written by - Keya Acharya - March 2nd, 2009
Women on top - Everesters now promote gender equality.
 KATHMANDU, Mar 2 (IPS) - Seven young women have started a seemingly commonplace programme of video presentations at schools in this mountainous Himalayan country. The programme’s contents however are unique.
The video describes the achievements of a 10-member, all-women’s team from Nepal, aged 17 - 30, that became, in May 2008, the first ever of its kind to successfully climb the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest. An expedition is termed as successful when all team members have been able to ‘summit’ or reach the peak. In this case they were all women.
To its climbers it presents avalanches, crevasses, ferocious winds, sudden storms, deep freeze temperatures and low levels of oxygen. Even when supported by bottled oxygen, climbers experience extreme fatigue, impaired judgment and coordination, headaches, nausea, double vision, and sometimes hallucinations. Expeditions spend weeks, sometimes months, acclimatising, and usually attempt Everest only in May and October, avoiding the winter snows and the summer monsoons.
As a result of the expedition, Everest now sports the Millenium Development Goal (MDG) flag of Gender Equality and Empowerment of Women, planted on it by the young women’s team. The team employed women during all stages of the expedition, from co-ordination, to cooks, mule drivers and support staff.
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