India, June 17 -- Some recent news stories highlighted that Mt. Everest peak is set to be reached by women thousandth time. However, the claim stands contested, as it has been argued that several women mountaineers scaled the peak successfully many times, like Lhakpa Sherpa, from Nepal, who did it ten times, a record for female climbers. However, according to the Himalayan Database, which tracks expeditions to the top of Everest, women climbers had scaled the peak 962 times, while men did so 11,955 times by the end of May 2025. While mountains are said to be conquered and narrated by men' (Majastre 2009). 'Mountaineering landscapes have evolved as, and remain strongly masculinised concepts, and it has been, and still is, male-dominated'(P...