A Sixteen-member Bahrain Royal Guard team led by Prince Mohammed Hamad Mohammed Al Khalifa on Tuesday became the first international team to conquer the new height of Mount Everest.
The Bahrain Royal Guard team successfully reached the peak of Mt Everest early Tuesday morning, as per international media reports.
"We have been notified that an expedition team consisting of a Bahrain royal family member has reached the top of Mt. Everest from 5.30 a.m. to 6.40 a.m. on Tuesday," Mira Acharya, director at Nepal's Department of Tourism, said in a statement.
The Seven Summit Treks also noted that nearly four dozens of other climbers scaled Mt. Everest on Tuesday morning as well. Before the Bahraini expedition team attempted Everest, the group climbed Mt. Manaslu (8,163m) and Mt. Lobuche (6,619m) in Nepal last October.
Nepal and China in December last year jointly announced that the revised height of the world's highest peak was 8,848.86 metres, about 86 centi-metres more than the previous measurement done by India in 1954.
The Nepal government decided to measure the exact height of the mountain amid debates that there might have been a change in it due to various reasons, including the devastating earthquake of 2015. The Bahrain team arrived in Kathmandu on March 15 to begin its Everest expedition.
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