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{{short description|Nepalese Sherpa girl (born 1988)}}
'''Ming Kipa''' ({{langx|ne|मिङ किपा शेर्पा}}) (born 1988) is a [[Nepal]]ese [[Sherpa people|Sherpa]] woman who held the record as the youngest person to climb [[Mount Everest]] from 2003 to 2010. She reached the summit on May 22, 2003 when she was 15 years old,<ref name=Glenday2010>{{Citation|title = Guinness World Records 2010: Thousands of New Records in The Book of the Decade!|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hLYzvUvPL3MC&q=Ming+Kipa+guinness+book&pg=PA210|year = 2010|author = Glenday, Craig|pages = 210| publisher=Bantam Books |isbn = 978-0-553-59337-2|accessdate = 2011-07-22}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|title = THT 10 years ago: Ming Kipa's record was happenstance' says sister|url = http://www.thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=THT+10+years+ago:+Ming+Kipa%27s+record+was+happenstance%26sbquo;+says+sister&NewsID=378076|year = 2013|accessdate = 2013-05-28}}</ref> with her brother Mingma Gyula and her sister [[Lhakpa Sherpa|Lhakpa]]. Nepalese [[law]] does not allow climbers under 16 to climb Everest, so Ming Kipa Sherpa summitted Everest from the Chinese side. Her record was broken in 2010 when [[Jordan Romero]] reached the summit on May 22 of that year at the age of 13 years, 10 months. The previous record holder was [[Temba Tsheri]] who climbed Everest at the age of 16 in 2001.<ref>{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Ming Kipa|url=http://www.everestnews.com/stories2008/georgepart3everest02032008.htm|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}</ref>
At the time of this record, 2003, about 1200 people had reached the summit of Mount Everest since 1953 with about 175 dying.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/25/everest.nepal The Guardian - Mount Everest 50th Anniversary]</ref>
==See also==
*[[List of Mount Everest records]]
*[[Dicky Dolma]]
*[[Melissa Arnot]]
*[[Shriya Shah-Klorfine]]
==References==
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==External links==
*[https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/may/25/everest.nepal The Guardian- Teenage girl conquers Everest, 50 years on - Luke Harding in New Delhi - Sunday 25 May 2003 06.58 EDT]
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[[Category:1988 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Nepalese mountain climbers]]
[[Category:Sherpa summiters of Mount Everest]]
[[Category:Nepalese Buddhists]]
[[Category:Nepalese summiters of Mount Everest]]
[[Category:Nepalese female mountain climbers]]
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