As many as 150 climbers reached the summit of Everest, the world’s tallest peak, on Thursday morning, with a Nepali woman climber smashing her own previous record.

Lhakpa Sherpa, 48, broke her own record by climbing Everest for the 10th time, said Mingma Gelu Sherpa, managing director of Seven Summit Adventure, Lhakpa’s brother. 

She reached atop the 8,848.86-metre Everest at 6:30am on Thursday.

Lhakpa, who lives in the US, had started her climbing career as a porter. She first summited Everest in 2000 at the age of 26.

“Her climb, indeed, is a proud moment for the climbing fraternity,” said Dambar Parajuli, president of the Expedition Operators Association of Nepal.

“She may continue this momentum in the coming years as well.”

Priti Bhusal, who works at Grande International Hospital, recorded her name as the first Nepali female doctor to summit Everest.

According to expedition organisers, some members of the ‘Full Circle’, an expedition of a group of black people who have been advocating the need for diversity and inclusion in outdoor sports and beyond for the Black community, also reached the summit of Everest on Thursday morning.

Jeevan Ghimire, managing director of Shangrila Trek and Expedition, said that six out of ten climbers from all-Black team, who were issued the climbing permits, have reached the summit. “Their climb was supported by 10 high-altitude climbing guides.”

This is the first expedition comprising a group of all black climbers.

“We believe our project will encourage people of colour to not just dream big, but simply get outside,” Philip Henderson, the leader of the all-Black expedition team, told journalists in Kathmandu in April. Henderson, however, is not part of the climbing.

Bhishma Raj Bhattarai, an official at the Department of Tourism, the government agency responsible to issue climbing permits and monitor the climbers, said that as many as 150 climbers reached the summit on Thursday.

According to Seven Summit Treks, Nepal’s largest expedition organiser, 39 climbers from the company made it to the top on Thursday morning, which includes 16 foreign climbers.

The climb includes a 33-year-old Antonina Samoilova, a Ukrainian woman who wants to draw attention to the suffering of her people in Ukraine caused by the Russian invasion.

This spring there are many Everest aspirants who plan to make records.

Sagar Bishwakarma Sunar, who is 3 feet and 7 inches tall, plans to become the world’s shortest man to climb Everest.

Sunar wants to spread the message that differently-abled persons should be given the same rights and fundamental freedoms as others in society.

French mountaineer Marc Batard, 70, hopes to become the oldest person to summit Everest without using supplemental oxygen. Batard is also planning to discover a new route to climb Everest by avoiding the dangerous Khumbu Icefall.

Asma Al Thani, a Qatari royal family member, is making her second attempt in her quest to become the first Middle Eastern woman to climb all Seven Summits. She had to cancel her Everest expedition in 2021 due to the pandemic.

Asma, the director of marketing and communications for the Qatar Olympic Committee is preparing to take the official football of the upcoming FIFA World Cup to the summit.

Ken Hutt, an Australian, has a plan to fly down from the summit using a paraglider at the age of 62. He has a mission supporting the “end polio now”

“In May 2022, mountaineer Ken Hutt is going to attempt the first-ever legal solo paraglide from Mt Everest, all to help raise funds to eradicate polio once and for all,” according to a website fly from everest.

In 2013, Sanobabu Sunuwar and Lakpa Tshiri Sherpa flew from the summit to Namche Bazaar in just 42 minutes.

South African adventurer and paraglider pilot Pierre Carter aims to become the second person to climb the seven summits (the highest peak in each continent) and descend by paraglider. He has only Everest and Mt Vision left to complete his project to paraglide to the top of all seven summits.

This spring, the first summit was made on May 7.

Kami Rita Sherpa led a group of Sherpa climbers who fixed ropes along the route so that hundreds of other climbers and guides could make their way to the top of the mountain.

Kami Rita broke his own record by climbing Everest 26th time. Kami Rita had scaled Everest for the first time on May 13, 1994.

This spring, the Department of Tourism has issued permits to 317 individuals.

Last spring, the department had issued a record 408 permits for Everest in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic.

A climbing permit for Everest costs $11,000 for foreigners. But climbers end up spending between $40,000 and $90,000 to climb the mountain.

Close to 7,000 mountaineers have climbed Everest from the Nepal side since Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and New Zealander Edmund Percival Hillary first set foot atop the world's highest peak in May 1953.

Along with climbs and success, Everest has been claiming lives too. The number of casualties on Everest this spring has reached three so far.

On Thursday, a climbing guide, Dipak Mahat who fell ill on Everest, died at a hospital in Kathmandu while undergoing treatment. He was suffering from high altitude sickness, according to the expedition organiser.

Pavel Kostrikin, a Russian climber, 55, died at Camp I at 6,065 metres on May 7.

On April 14, Ngimi Tenji Sherpa died near the Khumbu Icefall.