Nepalese mountain guide Lakpa Sherpa has added another summit success to his collection on Makalu. According to the expedition operator 14 Peaks Expedition, “Makalu Lakpa,” as he is also known, led a group of seven – two clients and five other Sherpas – to the 8,485-meter-high summit today.
For Lakpa, it was his ninth ascent of Makalu. No one has stood on the fifth-highest mountain on earth more often than he has. On 18 April, a six-member Nepalese rope-fixing team had secured the route to the highest point.
Tenth eight-thousander without a breathing mask for Sajid Ali Sadpara
According to information from the operator Seven Summit Treks, Pakistani climber Sajid Ali Sadpara was among the other mountaineers who reached the summit of Makalu today. Reportedly, he did not use bottled oxygen. For the 25-year-old, it was his tenth eight-thousander without a breathing mask.
Sajid is the son of Pakistani mountaineering legend Muhammad Ali Sadpara, who died in 2021 during a winter attempt on K2, the world’s second-highest mountain. In 2016, he was among the first to make a winter ascent of the eight-thousander Nanga Parbat.