BANGLADESH NEWS
Wasfia Nazreen, the second Bangladeshi woman to conquer Mount Everest, has dedicated her feat to those working for the emancipation of women in the country.
She said this while talking to reporters on her arrival at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport from Katmandu Saturday afternoon.
From the airport, she headed for Rayerbazar killing field in the capital to pay tribute to the martyred intellectuals.
A Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight carrying the mountaineer touched the tarmac of the airport around 1:30pm.
Family members, friends and members of the Bangladesh on Seven Summits campaign greeted her.
She returned home on completion of the over two-month-long successful expedition.
She set off on her Everest's mission on March 26, reaching the peak on May 26 only a week after first Bangladeshi woman Nishat Majumder's feat to conquer the world's highest peak.
Wasfia launched her expedition to scale the highest peaks of the seven continents last July under the Bangladesh on Seven Summits campaign celebrating the country's 40 years of independence.
On October 2 last year, she became the first Bangladeshi woman to reach the highest peak of Africa, Uhuru peak of Mt Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania.
She reached the peak of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina last December 16. She came back 300 metres off the peak of Mount Elbrus in Russia on July 12 same year.
Musa Ibrahim is the first Bangladeshi to conquer Mount Everest on May 23, 2010.
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