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16:57, 24-May-2019
Three Chinese women conquer Mount Qomolangma
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A mountaineering team of Chinese women has successfully scaled the world's highest peak – Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest – on Wednesday.
The three Chinese women are Ma Liyamu, from northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region; Ada Tsang Yin-hung, a former school teacher from Hong Kong Special Administrative Region; and Sun Ning, a designer from central China's Henan Province.
In 2016, Ma Liyamu became the first woman from Xinjiang to successfully climb the mountain in May that year. In 2015, she was severely injured in an avalanche at the base camp in Nepal when she was preparing to climb Mount Qomolangma.
The three Chinese women take a photo on Mount Qomolangma, May 22, 2019. /Chinanews Photo
The three Chinese women take a photo on Mount Qomolangma, May 22, 2019. /Chinanews Photo
Ada Tsang Yin-hung became the first Hong Kong woman to scale the highest peak in the world in May 2017.
This marks the first time for Sun to reach the summit of the tallest mountain on Earth. She had climbed to the top of the world's eighth highest Mount Manaslu, at an altitude of 8,163 meters, in September last year.
They set out on this year's journey on April 8, adapting to the high altitude and receiving intensive training in more than 40 days.
(Cover: Mount Qomolangma in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. /VCG Photo)
Source(s): China Daily