They spent years serving Everest climbers. This year, they climbed the top peak on this own

Phurba Sherpa and Keshav Prasad (Sobit) Gauchan have been to the Everest Region over a thousand times. While Sherpa, who is one of the directors at Heli Everest, frequented the area to look at the possibility to expand the business, Gauchan, who is a helicopter pilot, flew in and out of the region with mountaineers and tourists.

But on May 11, the two did something they had always dreamed of. The duo, along with the Bahrain Everest team, reached the summit of Everest becoming the first commercial climbers to do so in the season. Gauchan also claims he could be the first helicopter pilot to have scaled the highest peak of the world.