Monday Feb10,2020at2:00AM

PORT JERVIS The Hub, (The public computer center at the Port Jervis Free Library) is pleased to host an internationally recognized mountaineer, Nimdoma Sherpa, who in 2008 became the youngest woman to climb Mount Everest. The program will be held on Feb. 20, at 6:30 p.m.

Sherpa, will discuss the challenges of climbing the highest summits on each of the seven continents and why she does it. In May of 2008, she became the youngest woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Today she serves as the flag bearer for the United Nations World Food Program whose goal is ZERO HUNGER worldwide.

Sherpa was born into a poor family in a remote Himalayan village in Nepal. At five years old, she began attending school through a school meals program run by the United Nations World Food Program (WFP).

After finishing high school, Sherpa joined the First Inclusive Women's Sagarmatha Expedition, an all-female mountaineering team supported by the WFP. In May, 2008, all ten team members successfully summited Mount Everest, making 17-year-old Sherpa the youngest woman to have reached the summit. Her success on Everest was recounted in a children's coloring book titled Snow Leopard, the Yeti and the Girl Who Climbed Mount Everest, published by the WFP to promote the use of school meals to reduce child hunger. Copies of the coloring book will be distributed to program attendees.

In 2009, Sherpa and six of her Nepalese Sagarmatha Expedition teammates formed the Seven Summits Women Team, an all-female team whose goal is to climb to the summit of the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. They completed the task upon reaching Mount Mt Vinson Massif on Antarctica in 2014. Less than 400 people in the world have climbed the 7 Summits. Less than 100 of them are women. Sherpa is one of them.

Pre registration is required for this program since seating is limited, so reserve your place by calling The Hub at 856-7313 ext. 5, email thehub@portjervislibrary.org, or register in person at Port Jervis Library at 138 Pike Street in Port Jervis.

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Internationally recognized mountaineer coming to the PJ library - Times Herald-Record