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Hedayat Ali, who hails from Hajo in Assam, became the seventh Assamese to scale Mount Everest on Thursday morning.

Ali, who is a software engineer and currently settled in California, reached the top of Mount Everest at around 7:30 AM.

This is the season’s first Mount Everest expedition. Hedayet climbed the peak with 11 other mountaineers, as part of an International team.

In addition, he ascended Europe’s highest peak – Mount Elbrus, Mount Acconogua in 2019, and Africa’s highest peak – Mount Kilimanjaro, in 2018.

Its worthy to note that the first Assamese to climb Mount Everest was Tarun Saikia, a resident of Guwahati. As part of the 1st North East India Mount Everest Expedition, he reached the summit of the world’s highest peak on May 18, 2013.