Record-setting teenage climber returns to hero’s welcome in Nepal

The teenager is from a well-known mountaineering family (AP)

A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks has returned home to Nepal to a hero’s welcome.

Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, reached the 26,335ft summit of Mount Shishapangma in China last week, completing his mission to climb all the world’s peaks that top 8,000 metres (26,247ft). He broke a previous record by another Sherpa, who was 30 years old at the time.