Hong Kong teacher records fastest Everest ascent by a woman

Tsang Yin-hung, who first made the summit in a 2017 expedition, reached the top in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Hong Kong mountaineer Tsang Yin-hung, a former teacher, has recorded the world’s fastest ascent of Everest by a woman with a time of just under 26 hours, a Nepal official said Thursday. Tsang, 44, scaled the 8,848.86 metre (29,031 feet) mountain in a record time of 25 hours and 50 minutes on Sunday, Everest base camp’s government liaison officer Gyanendra Shrestha said. “She left the base camp at 1:20 pm on Saturday and reached (the top at) 3:10 pm the next day,” Shrestha told AFP.