7 more climbers scale Mt. Qomolangma

Seven more mountaineers have set their foot atop the world's highest mountain Qomolangma Thursday, Radio Nepal reported on Friday.

According to the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, the successful climbers include four foreigners and three Nepali citizens.

The foreigners are from Italy, South Korea and South Africa. They climbed the 8848-meter high Mt. Qomolangma from normal route of Nepali side.

Since New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay Sherpa of Nepal first conquered Mt. Qomolangma on May 29, 1953, more than 1,500 climbers have scaled the peak.

Source: Xinhua