What is Ming Kipa?
'''Ming Kipa''' is a [[Nepal]]ese [[Sherpa]] [[girl]] who (as recorded in the 2009 Guinness Book of Records) was the youngest person to climb [[Mount Everest]] until 2010.<ref name=live-science>{{cite web|website=Live Science|author=Live Science Staff|title=Teen Climber Now Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits|url=https://www.livescience.com/31015-jordan-romero-summits-record.html|date=2012-01-03}}</ref> She reached the summit on May 24, 2003 when she was 15 years<ref name=Glenday2010>{{Citation|title = Guinness World Records 2010: Thousands of New Records in The Book of the Decade!|url = https://books.google.com/books?id=hLYzvUvPL3MC&dq=Ming+Kipa+guinness+book&pg=PA210|year = 2010|author = Glenday, Craig|pages = 210|isbn = 978-0553593372|accessdate = 2011-07-22}}</ref> old, with her brother Mingma Gyula and her sister Laphka. Nepalese [[law]] does not allow climbers under 16 to climb Everest, so Ming Kipa climbed from the Chinese side. In 2010, her record was broken by 13-year old [[Jordan Romero]].<ref name=live-science /> ==References== {{reflist}} {{Sports-bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kipa, Ming}} [[Category:Sherpa]] [[Category:World record holders|Kipa, Ming]] [[Category:1987 births]] [[Category:Living people]]