SarayKhumalo becomes first black woman to scale Mount Everest
Award-winning South African mountaineer Saray Khumalo has made history, becoming the first black woman to reach the top of Mount Everest.She had attempted to summit the mountain on three previous occasions. In 2015, she was prevented from reaching her goal when Nepal was hit by an earthquake.Khumalo is the founder of, an initiative that raises money for underprivileged schools through her climbing.
“My dream is to go higher and go further for as long as I breathe. To pave a way for my children and other ordinary people, so we may realise and accept that ordinary people like us can achieve extraordinary heights,” she says on the initiative’s website. “To not think too much about the difficulties on the way but keep focused on the end goal and to take their hand, motivate them to realise that they too may dream the impossible dream.”
Less than 5,000 people have managed to summit Everest since Edmund Hilary made history by becoming the first person to do so in 1953.
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