Scaled Mount Everest The youngest women, Samina Baig, reached the 8,850-meter peak of Mount Everest on 19 May 2013. She joined a small but growing list of Muslim women to climb the world's highest mountain. In 2010, she became the first person to reach the summit of the 6,400-meter Chaskin Sar peak. She hails from the small town of Shimshal in Pakistan's mountainous north