Wasfia Nazreen, who was set to scale the Mount Everest today, has deferred her climb to the summit by a day due to inclement weather.
“Wasfia will push for the summit tomorrow [Saturday] night,” Korvi Rakshand, spokesperson of Bangladesh on Seven Summits’ campaign, which arranged the trekking, told The Daily Star around 9:30pm yesterday.
“She phoned me around 9:00pm from her satellite phone. Due to extreme winds, she had to postpone the summit by a day. Right now, Wasfia is on the South Col [7,900 metres above the sea level],” Rakshand added.
Wasfia was expected to reach the summit early this morning. She left the base camp on Monday.
If she reaches the top, she will be the second Bangladeshi woman to achieve the feat after Nishat Majumder, who scaled the mountain peak on May 19.
Nishat and her companion MA Muhit, waiting at the base camp, are set to begin descending today.
Nishat told The Daily Star yesterday, “We have taken all necessary preparations for our descent, and hope to start at 8:00am tomorrow [today]. We may reach Kathmandu next Monday via Namche Bazaar and Lukla.”
Muhit said they were completely fit for the journey down.
Both expressed their eagerness to return home soon to share their joy with the nation.
Muhit is the first Bangladeshi to scale the mountain twice and from both sides. He first scaled the mountain peak on May 21 last year.
Musa Ibrahim was the first Bangladeshi to conquer the Everest on May 23, 2010.
-With The Daily Star input
