![NEPAL-MOUNTAINEERING-GENDER-QUAKE Nepalese mountaineer Lakpa Sherpa prepares her equipment in Kathmandu, April 13, 2016.](https://api.time.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/lhakpa-sherpa-everest-record-7.jpg?quality=85&w=2400)
A Nepalese woman just broke her own record by scaling Mount Everest for the seventh time.
Lhakpa Sherpa, 42, who lives in Connecticut and works at a 7-Eleven there, reached the peak of the world’s highest mountain on Friday, the Guardian reports. The day’s success broke her own record for the most summits of Everest by a woman.
Two Sherpas share the record of 21 ascents by men.
Earlier this month, Sherra Gyalgen Sherpa was the first person to ascend Everest after a fatal avalanche in 2014 and the devastating earthquake in Nepal in 2015.
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