Concurrently, the Lhotse Summit Team under Major Nooruddin Ahmed is attempting to summit Mount Lhotse (fourth highest peak in the world at 8501M).
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The team had earlier set up a camp in the Khumbu valley in Nepal prior to their expedition.
The number of mountaineers atop Everest on the ninth day is more than double the total number of mountaineers who have reached the top of Everest in the first six days after the peak was opened this season and two days of interval due to bad weather.
The Mount Everest is also known in Nepal as Sagarmatha and in Tibet as Chomolungma. Its peak is 8,848 metres (29,029 ft) above sea level. “Chief of Army Staff Gen Dalbi Singh and all ranks congratulate the team”, the Additional Director General Public Information (ADG PI) tweeted.
At least 41 foreign climbers and 58 Nepali guides had prepared to make a final attempt on Wednesday while 110 Nepalis and 87 foreigners are scheduled to try to attempt to climb the Mt Everest on Thursday.
Hamatsu, 40, his team leader Kenji Kondo, 53, and three other Japanese – Sumio Hibino, Ban Ito and Koki Nishida – made it to the top, taking advantage of good weather, said Gyanendra Shrestha, who is at the mountain’s Base Camp.
The mountain had not been climbed in nearly two years after an avalanche triggered by an quake killed 19 people at base camp last year and 16 Sherpa guides were killed in 2014.
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“The Army team had taken control of the situation after the avalanche by extending help in the rescue operation and providing shelter and ration to those in need”, he said. However, the Indian Army expedition camp that was also in the path of the avalanche remained unharmed, he said.
