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A Sherpa guide who sprinted up Mt. Everest in eight hours and 10 minutes will keep the record for the fastest climb up the world’s highest peak, Nepalese mountaineering officials said Thursday.
Rival mountaineers challenged Pemba Dorjee’s claim that he beat the prior record by more than 2 1/2 hours. His critics said the weather was poor the day Dorjee, 26, scaled the more than 11,500 feet to the peak.
The allegations prompted government officials to review Dorjee’s climb.
On Thursday, Tourism Ministry official Shanker Pandey said a committee reviewing the dispute concluded that Dorjee had produced enough evidence to back his claim, regaining the record he lost last year to another Sherpa guide, Lakpa Gyelu.
