Pemba Sherpa Becomes First Kidney Transplant Recipient to Summit Mount Everest, Aims to Climb All Seven Continents

Kathmandu. No matter how big the storms of life's ups and downs, they cannot bring down Pemba Sherpa of Solukhumbu. He has become so tough that no crisis can break his morale.

Pemba, 37, has already registered his name as the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest after a kidney transplant. The journey of this climber, who received a kidney transplant from his own father, does not stop here. He is determined to climb the highest peaks of all seven continents. Accordingly, he made the ascent of Everest the first chapter.