Mountaineer Lhakpa Sherpa extended her own world record for the highest number of successful Everest ascents by a woman after scaling the peak for the 11th time on Sunday morning.

According to Chhang Dawa Sherpa, who is currently at the Everest Base Camp, Lhakpa reached the summit of Mount Everest at around 9:30am, surpassing her previous record of 10 ascents.

With Sunday’s ascent, Lhakpa has now climbed Everest eight times from the northern ridge in Tibet and three times from the southern route in Nepal.

On May 18, 2000, while leading the Nepali Women Millennium Expedition, she became the first Nepali woman to summit Everest and return safely. She followed Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, who became the first Nepali woman to reach the summit in 1993 but died during the descent. Officials said Lhakpa is safely descending to Base Camp.

Over a mountaineering career spanning more than two decades, Lhakpa has repeatedly broken her own record. She secured her 10th Everest summit on May 12, 2022. Her previous successful ascents came in 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2022.

Beyond Everest, she climbed K2 on July 27, 2023, at the age of 49. The mountain is widely regarded as the world’s most dangerous 8,000-metre peak.

Lhakpa and her family also hold multiple global records. In 2003, she summited Everest alongside her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa and her then 15-year-old sister Ming Kipa Sherpa, setting a Guinness World Record for the most siblings standing on the summit at the same time.