Everest successes Four Bulgarians, climbing in separate groups of two, have reached the peak of Mount Everest and for the first time succeeded in traversing the world’s tallest summit from the west ridge route to the south-east ridge, the Nepalese Tourism Ministry says. The first pair, comprising Ivan Gueorgiev Valchev and Metodi Stefanov Savov, both 37, reached the 8848 m (29,028 ft Everest summit on Tuesday via the west ridge and they descended to the south-east ridge after spending 23 minutes at the summit Two more Bulgarians, Mihaylov Petkov and Kiril Dimitrov Doskov, both students, aged 27, reached the summit of Everest via the west ridge route along the Lho La Pass. They also made a traverse via the south ridge route and were helping the two Bulgarian mountaineers climb dawn to the south col safely.pKatmandu.
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