Four-Year-Old Hikes to Everest Base Camp
Zara Sifra has become the youngest person on record to make the long hike to the famous base camp
A four-year-old from the Czech Republic named Zara has set a new record as the youngest person on record to reach Mount Everest’s base camp. Zara was accompanied by her father David Sifra and her seven-year-old brother along the 170-kilometre trip. Everest base camp sits at 5,360 metres.
The previous record was held by Prisha Lokesh Nikajoo who reached base camp at the age of five in 2023. Zara was only four years and five months old when she completed the journey.
Sifra carefully monitored his daughter’s conditions as they acclimatized, telling Metro, “There was no problem during the march, the acclimatization went above average, little Zara, thanks to her very good physical condition, even outpaced, with a few exceptions, hundreds of other trekkers.”
Here are some other Everest records: Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed it 28 times; Lhakpa Sherpa became the first woman to climb it 10 times last year; and Yūichirō Miura is the oldest to climb it at 80. And while it’s not an Everest record, in 2016 a Pizza Hut in Tanzania delivered a pizza to the summit of Kilimanjaro after a three day climb. It’s considered the highest-altitude pizza delivery.
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