Indian Mountaineer Arjun Vajpai Scales World's Sixth Highest Mountain Cho Oyu Wednesday Oct 05,2016

Professional Indian mountaineer Arjun Vajpai on Wednesday  Oct 05,2016 scaled the world's sixth highest mountain Cho Oyu.

The 23-year-old reached the summit before dawn along with his sherpas and another expedition member after leaving from Camp 3.

With the Cho Oyu summit, Arjun Vajpai has climbed 5 of the 14 highest mountains in the world that tower over 8000 mt and holds world records as the youngest summiteer on Mount Lhotse, Mount Manaslu and Mount Makalu.

"I felt overwhelmed and humbled standing on top of this big and challenging mountain. I summited at 6.20 IST under very cold conditions along with my two Sherpas Pasang Norbu Sherpa and Lakhpa Sherpa," said the mountaineer via a WhatsApp call.

Eight-thousander

 

The eight-thousanders are the 14 independent mountains on Earth that are more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) high above sea level

The first recorded attempt on an eight-thousander was when Albert F Mummery and J Norman Collie tried to climb Pakistan's Nanga Parbat in 1895.

 The attempt was unsuccessful when Mummery and two Gurkhas, Ragobir and Goman Singh, were killed by an avalanche

The first recorded successful ascent of an eight-thousander was by the French Maurice Herzog and Lousi Lachenal  who reached the summit of Annapurna on June 3, 1950.

The first person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders was the Italian Reinhold Messner, who completed this feat on 16 October 1986. In 1987, Polish climber Jerzy Kukuczka became the second person to accomplish this feat.

The first woman who summited all 14 eight-thousanders with no disputed climbing was the Spanish Edurne Pasaban in 2010

List of Eight Thousanders

1)Everest in Nepal/China 8848 Metres(29029 Feet)

2)K2 in Pakistan/China8611 Metres(28251 Feet)

3)Kangchenjunga in Nepal/India 8586 Metre(28169 Feet)

4)Lhotse in Nepal/China 8516 Metres (27940 Feet)

5)Makalu in Nepal/China 8485 Metres (27838 Feet)

6)Cho Oyu in Nepal/China 8201 Metres(26906 Feet)

7)Dhaulagiri I in Nepal 8167 Metres(26795 Feet)

8)Manaslu in Nepal 8163 Metres(26781 Feet)

9)Nanga Parbat in Pakistan 8126 Metres(26660 Feet)

10)Annapurna I in Nepal 8091 Metres(26545 Feet)

11)Gasherbrum I in Pakistan/China 8080 Metres(26444 Feet)

12)Broad Peak in Pakistan/China 8051 Metres(26414 Feet)

13)Gasherbrum II in Pakistan/China 8035 Metres(26362 Feet)

14)Shishapangma in China 8027 Metres(26335 Feet)