Bangladeshi climber Musa Ibrahim will speak in public soon on the ongoing controversy over his conquering the Mount Everest as the first Bangladeshi.
“I will present the evidence to the nation to prove the authenticity of my climbing the Everest summit,” he said in a post on his Facebook wall yesterday.
Musa also urged all to refrain from maligning his character and integrity by questioning his conquering the highest peak.
“I have noticed that a few persons are propagating against me in 2/3 media outlets in Bangladesh, that I did not conquer the summit of the Mount Everest in 2010,” reads Musa’s the Facebook post.
A debate is going on in the country that Musa did not conquer the Mt Everest as the official website of the Nepal government does not mention his name in the list of mountaineers who climbed the peak.
In the post, Musa stated that he reached the Everest summit through the North Route in Tibet, China on May 23, 2010.
“I am out of country now on a family visit. As soon as I am back home, I will present all the evidences one more time to the nation and the media to prove the authenticity of the summit,” he writes.
So far five Bangladeshis have scaled the highest peak on the Earth.
MA Mohit climbed the Mt Everest twice – May 21, 2011 and May 20, 2012; Nishat Majumder, first Bangladeshi woman to conquer the Everest, scaled the mountain in 2012; Wasfia Nazreen was the second Bangladeshi woman to climb the Mount Everest on May 26, 2012.
In 2013, Bangladeshi climber Sajal Khaled scaled the Mount Everest. He died during the descent.