Kathmandu, May 20 (RSS): Photo journalist, Poornima Shrestha, has successfully scaled the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest or Sagarmatha. Mountaineer Shrestha reached atop the highest summit at 8.10 am on Saturday morning, shared Spokesperson of Photo Journalists’ Club, Deepak Shrestha.The Club has claimed that Shrestha has become the first-ever Nepali photo journalist to reach atop the highest peak of the world.
Earlier, photo journalist Shrestha, 28, a local of Arughat of Gorkha had scaled the Mount Manaslu with a height of 8,163 metres on 26 September 2017.
In course of her mountaineering, Shrestha had undertaken a solo photo exhibition ‘Muskurairaheka Nepali Mahilaharu (Smiling Nepali Women) from Base Camp to the Top of the Everest. Nepal Tourism Board had provided support to Shrestha to exhibit the photographs so as to promote culture and tourism of the country. She has been active as a photo journalist for the past five years.
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