Diplomat atop Mt. Everest
June 26 , 2006
A team of HG Everest Expedition comprising nine mountaineers, including a diplomat stationed at the British Embassy in Nepal, successfully scaled Mt. Everest on May 18, 2006.
The successful mountaineers were 39-year-old British diplomat Serena Helena Brocklebank, British national John Charles Pomfret, 44, Mark Squirrell, 34, of Australia and Addries Norte Botha, 54, a Canadian doctor, according to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation.
Similarly, the Nepalese team members of the expedition to scale the Mt. Everest were Pasang Dawa Sherpa, 36, Pasang Nuru Sherpa, 30, Ang Namgyal Sherpa, 23, Chewang Dorjee Sherpa, 25, and Lakpa Thundu Sherpa.
Meanwhile, an eight-member Polish expedition team comprising Boguslaw Stanislaw Ogrodnik, a 41-year-old Lawyer at the British Embassy, Tomasz Andrzej Kobielski, 33, Dariusz Jerzy Zaluski, 47, Janusz Adam Admski, 37, and Marta Eliza Wojciechowska, 32, of Poland also successfully scaled Mt. Everest on May 18.
The Nepalese members of the Falvit Everest Expedition-06 to scale Mt. Everest included Dorjee Sherpa, 40, Phur Tenji Sherpa, 32, and Mingma Sherpa.