KATHMANDU: Two Iranian climbers have become the first Muslim women to reach the top of the world’s highest peak, Mount Everest, officials and climbing historians said on Tuesday. Nepal’s tourism ministry said Farkhondeh Sadegh, a 36-year-old graphic designer from Tehran, and Labeh Keshavarz, 25, a dentist from Zabedan, scaled the 8,850-metre mountain on Monday from the Nepali side of the mountain that straddles the border with China.
“These are the first Muslim women to reach the summit of Everest,” a Kathmandu-based mountaineering historian said. Many Muslim men have already climbed the giant peak.—Reuters
