A Hong Kong teacher has recorded the fastest ascent of a woman’s Everest on Mount Everest News

Tsang Yin-hung, who made the summit for the first time on a 2017 expedition, reached the summit in 25 hours and 50 minutes.

Hong Kong mountaineer Tsang Yin-hung, a former teacher, recorded the world’s fastest ascent of Everest by a woman with less than 26 hours, a Nepalese official said on Thursday.

Tsang, 44, climbed Mount 8,848.86 meters (29,031 feet) in a record time of 25 hours and 50 minutes on Sunday, a government liaison official at Everest base camp, Gyanendra Shrestha, said.

“He left base camp at 13:20 on Saturday and arrived at 15:10 the next day (at the top),” Shrestha told AFP.

But Tsang has yet to file his claim with Guinness World Records officials to receive a certificate of his prowess, he added.

The Nepalese government has assured that the climbers have reached the summit but does not issue certificates for the records.

Tsang, known as Ada, and the organizers of his expedition are on their way to Kathmandu and have yet to comment.

The fastest woman to conquer Everest was Nepalese Phunjo Jhangmu Lama who completed the climb in 39 hours 6 minutes.

In 2017, she became the first Hong Kong woman to reach the summit of Tsang. This was his third attempt to climb the summit of the Himalayas.

Nepal has issued a record 408 Everest climbing permits for this season after it was canceled due to a pandemic last season.

350 people have reached the summit of the mountain in the spring, the tourism department said, while the country is struggling tremendously in coronavirus cases.

But at least two teams have said they have canceled expedition plans after some team members tested positive at the base camp.