{"id":263569,"date":"2021-05-31T20:18:41","date_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tired-but-safe-everest-record-making-climbers-return\/"},"modified":"2021-05-31T20:18:41","modified_gmt":"2021-05-31T17:18:41","slug":"tired-but-safe-everest-record-making-climbers-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tired-but-safe-everest-record-making-climbers-return\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tired but safe: Everest record-making climbers return"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tired but safe: Everest record-making climbers return<\/strong>”
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KATHMANDU, May 30 \u2013\u00a0Record-setting\u00a0climbers\u00a0of Mount\u00a0Everest\u00a0said on Sunday they were too\u00a0tired\u00a0after scaling the world\u2019s highest peak to map out their future climbing plans.<\/p>\n

Arthur Muir, 75, a retired\u00a0lawyer from Chicago, became the oldest American to reach the 29,031-foot summit, on May 23.<\/p>\n

Tsang Yin-Hung, 45, a former teacher from Hong Kong, became the fastest woman to scale the peak, breaking 26 hours. Usually\u00a0climbers\u00a0spend several days in different camps before reaching the peak.<\/p>\n

China\u2019s Zhang Hong, 46, became Asia\u2019s first blind man, and the world\u2019s third, to scale the peak from the Nepal side.<\/p>\n

Muir, who has three children and six grandchildren \u2013 a grandson was born while he was on\u00a0Everest\u00a0\u2013 said it was too early for him to decide his future plans after the\u00a0Everest\u00a0achievement.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have not decided yet,\u201d he told reporters at the airport in Kathmandu after\u00a0returning from the mountain.<\/p>\n

Muir, who had abandoned an\u00a0Everest\u00a0attempt after breaking an ankle falling off a ladder in 2019, said he was exhausted when he finally reached the summit in bad weather.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrankly I was surprised when I actually got there, but I was too\u00a0tired\u00a0to stand up \u2026 in very windy and very cold weather,\u201d said Muir, who started climbing after retirement at 68 on mountains in South America and Alaska.<\/p>\n

He said he was not scared despite reports of a COVID-19 outbreak at the base camp because he was vaccinated before reaching Nepal and had followed health protocols.<\/p>\n

Muir broke the\u00a0record\u00a0set by Bill Burke, who conquered the mountain at age 67 in 2009.<\/p>\n

Tsang reached the summit in 25 hours and 50 minutes after setting off from the base camp,\u00a0making\u00a0two brief stops before reaching the peak. She smashed the\u00a0record\u00a0of 39 hours and 6 minutes set in 2017 by Nepali woman Phunjo Jhangmu Lama.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel a kind of relief and am happ<\/a>y because I am not looking for breaking\u00a0records,\u201d she said. \u201cI just want (to) challenge myself \u2026 so I feel relieved because I can prove my work to my friends and to my students.\u201d\u00a0\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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