Everest conquerors fly home today; Wasfia reaches Kathmandu<\/strong>
\nAfter their successful ascent of Mount Everest, two Bangladeshi mountaineers Nishat Majumder and MA Mohit will return home today.
\nThey are scheduled to arrive in Dhaka at 1:40pm on a flight of Biman Bangladesh Airlines.
\n“Our flight will take off at 12:25pm [BST] from Kathmandu\u2026. I am very excited at returning home after such a long time. I just can’t express my feelings,” Nishat told
\nThe Daily Star over the phone.
\nOn May 19, she became the first Bangladeshi woman to scale Mt Everest.
\nThe two could not receive their certificates of success yesterday as it was a public holiday in Nepal.
\n“We will try to receive our certificates before our flight tomorrow [Sunday]. If we fail, our Sherpa will collect it from the Nepali Ministry of Tourism,” she added.
\nAlthough Mohit had earlier requested the Bangladesh embassy in Kathmandu to host its planned reception to them by Saturday, the mission could not arrange the programme
\nbefore Monday. As a result, they are coming back home without being accorded the reception.
\nTheir chief Sherpa Mingma Gylje Sherpa will come to Dhaka with them.
\nOfficials of the Bangladesh Tourism Board will receive Nishat and Mohit at Shahjalal International Airport. Civil Aviation and Tourism Minister Muhammad Faruk Khan is
\nlikely to welcome them home, said Akhtaruzzaman Khan Kabir, chief executive officer of the board.
\nUpon their arrival, Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club (BMTC) will arrange a motor rally. It will commence at the airport and pass through different streets
\nbefore concluding at the Nayabazar residence of Mohit, said Reaz Ahmed, general secretary of BMTC.
\nOn the way, they will place floral wreaths at the Central Shaheed Minar to pay homage to the martyrs of Language Movement.
\nDhaka Wasa will host a reception to them, but the date of the event is yet to be finalised, said an official of the organisation, where Nishat works as an accountant.
\nNishat, accompanied by Mohit, began her expedition to the Everest on April 9 from Kathmandu as part of the campaign, \u201cBecause I am a Girl\u201d, by Plan Bangladesh.
\nWASFIA AWAITS KATHMANDU FLIGHT
\nMeanwhile, another Bangladeshi Everest conqueror Wasfia Nazreen hopes to reach Kathmandu today from Lukla by a special helicopter, if the weather remains favourable.
\n“I was scheduled to fly to Kathmandu this [Saturday] morning. But the flight was cancelled due to heavy fog,” Wasfia told this newspaper.
\nOn May 26, she scaled the world’s highest peak, the second Bangladeshi woman to do so.
\nShe started her Everest expedition on March 26 on the theme, \u201cBangladesh on Seven Summits,\u201d supported by the Liberation War Museum of Bangladesh.
\nMohit is the first Bangladeshi to have climbed Mt Everest twice. He first reached the mountain peak on May 21 last year.
\nMusa Ibrahim, the first Bangladeshi to achieve the feat, had earlier conquered the Everest on May 23, 2010.<\/p>\n

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