Wasfia Nazreen
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"I'm dedicating my victory to those associated with women's rights movement."
On May 26, the 29-year-old mountaineer reached the 8,850-meter high (29,035 ft) summit of Mount Everest from the southern side at 6:26am (Nepal time) with Ngima Girmen Sherpa and Da Kusang Sherpa.
From the top of the world, she said she had dedicated the feat to the resilience of the women in Bangladesh.
Wasfia is the fourth Bangladeshi mountaineer to hoist Bangladesh's flag on the top of Everest just a week after Nishat Mazumder did it as the first Bangladeshi woman.
Wasfia, a rights activist, writer and development practitioner, said she wants to promote the women freedom fighter who fought bravely for Bangladesh's independence in 1971.
As part of this effort, last year she climbed the 5895-metre-high Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa in October and near-seven kilometer high Mount Aconcagua in Argentina in December, the second highest of the Seven summits.
Wasfia announced that she would open a mountaineering training center for women in the country for practical training. "I hope the centre will be launched in 2013. Initially, 50 women will be included in the training programme."
She congratulated Nishat Mazumder, the first Bangladeshi women to conquer Mount Everest. "When she ascended to the Everest summit, I was at Camp-3. This is a matter of pride to have two Bangladeshi women to conquer Mount Everest in one week."
Nishat scaled Everest's summit on May 19 from the northern side of the mountain in Nepal with M A Mohit, the second Bangladeshi to have conquered the Everest.
Earlier on May 24, 2010 Musa Ibrahim became the first Bangladeshi to scale the summit.
Mohit is the first Bangladeshi to scale the mountain twice. He first scaled the mountain peak on May 21 last year.
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Women's Rights Activist
Wasfia Nazreen, the second Bangladeshi woman to conquer
world's tallest peak, Mount Everest, has dedicated her feat to the
women's rights activists of the country.
"This is not only my achievement. I could not have done it
without the support of the people of my country," she told reporters
after her plane landed at the Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport in
the capital Saturday. "I'm dedicating my victory to those associated with women's rights movement."
On May 26, the 29-year-old mountaineer reached the 8,850-meter high (29,035 ft) summit of Mount Everest from the southern side at 6:26am (Nepal time) with Ngima Girmen Sherpa and Da Kusang Sherpa.
From the top of the world, she said she had dedicated the feat to the resilience of the women in Bangladesh.
Wasfia is the fourth Bangladeshi mountaineer to hoist Bangladesh's flag on the top of Everest just a week after Nishat Mazumder did it as the first Bangladeshi woman.
Wasfia, a rights activist, writer and development practitioner, said she wants to promote the women freedom fighter who fought bravely for Bangladesh's independence in 1971.
As part of this effort, last year she climbed the 5895-metre-high Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa in October and near-seven kilometer high Mount Aconcagua in Argentina in December, the second highest of the Seven summits.
Wasfia announced that she would open a mountaineering training center for women in the country for practical training. "I hope the centre will be launched in 2013. Initially, 50 women will be included in the training programme."
She congratulated Nishat Mazumder, the first Bangladeshi women to conquer Mount Everest. "When she ascended to the Everest summit, I was at Camp-3. This is a matter of pride to have two Bangladeshi women to conquer Mount Everest in one week."
Nishat scaled Everest's summit on May 19 from the northern side of the mountain in Nepal with M A Mohit, the second Bangladeshi to have conquered the Everest.
Earlier on May 24, 2010 Musa Ibrahim became the first Bangladeshi to scale the summit.
Mohit is the first Bangladeshi to scale the mountain twice. He first scaled the mountain peak on May 21 last year.
NEXT / BACK
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