Two 21-year-old Indian sisters have scripted history by becoming the first twins ever to conquer the summit of Mount Everest together.

An official at Nepal's Ministry of Tourism and Culture expressed that Tashi and Nancy Malik from Dehra Dun conquered this extraordinary act by successfully reaching the world's highest mountain peak at 8,848 meters. The duo were among other record-makers including the first women from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan who climbed the Everest on 19th May 2013. 

During a so-called "fair weather" window yesterday, 146 people were known to have reached the summit of the world's highest peak with 94 more completing the journey on 20th May 2013.

Tilak Pandey of the Mountain Division at the Ministry said that this brings to 348 the total number of climbers who have ascended the mountain since May 10.

The route on Mount Everest 

Previous year, more than 250 climbers reached the summit in a 48-hour stretch of good weather irrespective of the warnings of potentially deadly bottlenecks in the "death zone" above 8,000 metres.

That's indeed an accomplishment by the achievers which deserves a louder felicitations.

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(AW:Samrat Biswas)