CNN —Twenty-four hours and 26 minutes, without stopping to sleep: Nepal’s Phunjo Lama has just broken the world record for the fastest ascent of Mount Everest by a woman. Her journey from Everest Base Camp to the top took 14 hours and 31 minutes, then the descent from Everest was another nine hours and 18 minutes. Due to the limited climbing season and challenging conditions on Mount Everest, the window to reach the top of the mountain is small. That record was broken in 2021 by Hong Kong native Ada Tsang in 25 hours and 50 minutes. Currently, the record for fastest ascent by a male climber is 10 hours and 56 minutes, set by Nepali Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa in 2003.

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Persons: CNN —, Lama, Samantha McMahon, Ada Tsang, she’s, “, Kim Lal Gautam, Niranjan Shrestha Organizations: CNN, Everest Base, Base, Guinness World Records, Lhakpa, Guinness Locations: Everest, Base, Hong Kong, Kathmandu, “, North America, Pakistan