Wasfia to return home today
Wasfia Nazreen
The nation waits eagerly to welcome home Wasfia Nazreen today. She is returning to the country on the completion of her over two-month-long successful expedition that led her to become the second Bangladeshi woman to conquer the Mount Everest. Wasfia is scheduled to arrive in the capital around 12:40pm today by a Biman Bangladesh Airlines flight. “After many days I am going home. I am feeling very happy," Wasfia told The Daily Star over phone yesterday. Family members, friends and members of the Bangladesh on Seven Summits campaign will greet Wasfia at Hazrat Shahjalal International Airport. Later, Wasfia will visit the city's Rayerbazar killing field to pay tribute to the martyred intellectuals, where she will also address a press conference, said Korvi Rakshand, spokesperson of the seven summits campaign. Wasfia set off on her Everest's mission on March 26, reaching the peak on May 26. She launched her expedition to scale the highest peaks of the seven continents last July under the Bangladesh on Seven Summits campaign celebrating the country's 40 years of independence. On October 2 last year, she became the first Bangladeshi woman to reach the highest peak of Africa, Uhuru peak of Mt Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania. She reached the peak of Mount Aconcagua in Argentina last December 16. She came back 300 metres off the peak of Mount Elbrus in Russia on July 12 same year. Musa Ibrahim is the first Bangladeshi to conquer Mount Everest on May 23, 2010 while Nishat Majumder is first Bangladeshi woman to achieve the feat on May 19.
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