Teen breaks record by climbing Earth's highest peaks

A Nepalese teenager has broken the world record for the youngest mountaineer to summit Earth’s 14 highest peaks.

Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, stood atop Tibet’s Mount Shishapangma at about 06:05 local time on Wednesday.

In doing so, he became the latest of just a few dozen people to have scaled all of the world’s “eight-thousanders” - the 14 mountains that the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) recognises as more than 8,000 metres above sea level.