From sea to summit: Shakil conquers Mount Everest after 84-day trek from Cox's Bazar

Though he set a 90-day goal to reach the summit, Shakil completes the journey in just 84 days

In a historic feat, Ikramul Hasan Shakil has reached the summit of Mount Everest after walking all the way to the Himalayas from Cox's Bazar's Inani Beach.

According to a post on his Facebook page, he scaled the summit early on Monday morning, becoming the seventh Bangladeshi to conquer the world’s highest peak.

Enam-Ul-Haque, founder of the expedition’s organising body the Bangla Mountaineering and Trekking Club, told bdnews24.com: “Shakil summited at 6am on Monday. He walked from Inani Beach to the top of Everest in just 84 days.”

Earlier, on Mar 9, Shakil held a press conference in Gulshan, Dhaka, where he detailed the plan for his Sea to Summit journey.

At the time, he announced that he had started walking on Feb 25 from Inani Beach in Cox’s Bazar, aiming to reach the Everest summit within 90 days.

Passing through Feni, Cumilla, and Munshiganj, he was in Dhaka at that time.

He said at the briefing that his route spanned roughly 1,300 kilometres through Bangladesh, India, and Nepal to summit the 29,031-foot (8,848-metre) peak of Everest.

Although he set out with a 90-day target, Shakil achieved his goal in just 84 days, breaking the long-standing record of Australian mountaineer Tim Macartney-Snape, who in 1990 hiked over 1,200 kilometres from Gangasagar, India, and summited Everest in more than three months.