Anar Burasheva, the first woman from Kazakhstan to climb Mount Everest, did a little dance on her descent.
“My heart is on this mountain,” Burasheva said on Instagram after reaching the peak.
She and two other Kazakh climbers, along with a support team of four Sherpas, made it to the top on Sunday after a five-day trip from base camp in Nepal. The other Kazakh mountaineers are Maksut Zhumayev, a mountain training instructor in the Kazakh military who was making his third Everest ascent, and Almir Kymbatbaiuly.
“Congratulations to Anar Burasheva, the first Kazakh woman to conquer the highest mountain peak in the world. Scaling 8,848 meters above sea level, Mount Everest – an incredible achievement,” Erzhan Kazykhan, a Kazakh presidential adviser on foreign affairs, said on X.
Kazakhstan’s defense ministry also congratulated the Kazakh climbers, whose ascent was organized by Seven Summit Treks, a Nepali expedition company that specializes in Himalayan climbs.
Burasheva has climbed peaks in Kazakhstan and abroad, and is also a long-distance runner.
Lucia Janičová also summited Everest on Sunday, becoming the first Slovakian woman to do so. Seven Summit Treks assisted her, as well. The company’s senior guide for the ascent was Kami Rita Sherpa, who logged his 29th trip to the summit.
