Ming Kipa
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Ming Kipa is a Nepal
Nepal
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ese Sherpa girl
Girl
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 who (as recorded in the 2009 Guinness Book of Records) was the youngest person to climb Mount Everest
Mount Everest
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. She reached the summit on May 24, 2003 when she was 15 years old, with her brother Mingma Gyula and her sister Laphka. Nepalese law
Law
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does not allow climbers under 16 to climb Everest, so Ming Kipa Sherpa summitted Everest from the Chinese side.
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