Kathmandu, May 21: How much does a single day mean to a woman huffing and puffing her way up the treacherous slippery and snowy slopes of the world’s highest peak, Mt. Everest?

Very much, if you were Pema Dolma Sherpa. For, just by a single day, Pema had to console herself to become the third Nepalese woman to conquer the world’s tallest peak, Mt. Everest.

If Lhakpa Sherpa, 26, the team leader of the Nepalese Women Millennium Everest Expedition Spring 2000, stood on top of Mt. Everest on Thursday (May 18), then Pema Dolma Sherpa, 30, surveyed the world as far as her eyes could see from the highest pinnacle of the world on Friday (May 19).

Though Pema, who hails from Namche VDC, Solukhu-mbu district, is now the third Nepalese woman, after Pasang Lhamu Sherpa and Lhakpa Sherpa, to have scaled the Third Pole, she will be holding the national record of being the very first Nepalese woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest from the North Face from the Tibet Autonomous Region of China.

She reached the 8,850 meter pinnacle of Mt. Everest at 9:20 A.M. on 19th of May, 2000.

Pema summitted Mt. Everest from the Chinese side as member of the Swiss Everest Expedition Spring 2000, according to Ang Tshering Sherpa, Agent of the China Tibet Mountaineering Association and Chairman of the Asian Trekking  Company which is associated with the Swiss expedition.

Like Lhakpa Sherpa, who pipped her to becoming the second Nepalese woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest by a single day, Pema is not a rookie as far as climbing mountains is concerned. She had been climbing the Alps of Europe in the past.

The Swiss Everest Expedition was led by Karl Kobler and had 12 climbing members, including the leader. The team had left for the Everest Base Camp from Kathmandu on April 12, 2000.

The Swiss Everest Expedition Spring 2000 was organized by the Iceland Trekking and Expedition, Nepal.