In a record setting spree, a Sherpa reportedly stood naked atop Mt Everest for three minutes and got his pictures taken on Wednesday. Twenty five-year-old Lakpa Tharke Sherpa of Khumjung-9, Phorche, Solukhumbu took off his clothes on the summit for three minutes on May 24, claimed Ishwori Poudel, managing director of the Himalayan Guides Trek and Expeditions. Lakpa, a permanent staffer of the HGTE, scaled the peak as a climbing Sherpa of the Adventure Consultants Everest Expedition 06” team. “I spoke to Lakpa and other climbing Sherpas on the satellite phone yesterday and they broke the news to me,” he said. He claimed that Lakpa had not informed him about his intention prior to his departure. “We are planning to file his extraordinary feat for the Guinness book of World Record,” he added. Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, expressed disbelief . “I am too shocked to hear that a climbing Sherpa has crossed the thin red line just to set a new record,” he said. He further said, “Mt Everest also known as Chomulungma is a holy mountain for us. What he has done is extremely shameful for the whole country.” Kathmandu: Lhakpa Sherpa, the first woman to have scaled Mt Everest six times, is all set to set a new record by scaling the world’s highest peak from the North Col and descending through the South Col next year. There is nothing women cannot achieve, she said at a press conference organised by the Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA) to felicitate Lhakpa and American climber George Dijmarescu. — HNS