Musa Ibrahim is a Bangladeshi mountaineer and an adventurer, explorer, journalist and author. He is the first Bangladeshi to claim to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He reached the summit around 5:05am BST on 23 May 2010 and hoisted the flag of Bangladesh on the apex of the world at around 5:16am BST. From then, Bangladesh became the 67th Mount Everest conquering country. Musa is the General Secretary of North Alpine Club Bangladesh, a Bangladeshi mountaineering club and serves as special correspondent at Channel 24. He served as the sub-editor of The Daily Star. He founded the Everest Academy in 2011 for a wide participation of youth in mountaineering and adventure activities and founded Everest Foundation as well on 2012 for humanitarian and environmental development works.
Musa Ibrahim is the first Bangladeshi citizen who climbed Mount Everest. He reached the peak on 23 May 2010 where he hoisted the national flag of Bangladesh. He used the NorthAlpine route on the Tibetan side to reach the highest peak of the world. Besides Musa, six Britons, three Montenegrins, an American and a Serbian were on the team. The China Tibet Mountaineering Association certified his climb. The certificate read "This is to certify that, on 23 May 2010 at 6.50am Md Musa Ibrahim Bangladesh reached the top of the peak of Everest, Chomolungma of Mt. Everest." Musa planned to organize Bangladesh-Russia friendship mountaineering to Mt Elbrus. This was declared at Russian Centre of Science And Culture, Dhaka. They hoisted the flags of Bangladesh, Russia and Kabardino-Balkaria Republic on Mt Elbrus. Dalhat Olmejhev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria Republic in Russia, guided them. The Ministry of Civil Aviation and Tourism, Bangladesh Tourism Board, Russian Embassy in Bangladesh and the sports and tourism ministries of Russia's Kabardino-Balkaria Republic aided the program. Musa and Satyarup Siddhanta of India planned to participate in an expedition titled 'First Bangladesh-India Friendship Expedition to Mount Denali' in the first week of June 2014. This was announced at a sole talk programme by Sattar at the Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre of the Indian High Commission in Dhaka on Thursday, says a press release. Indian Deputy High Commissioner Sandwip Chakravarty spoke at the function wishing success of the expedition.
Controversy
Nepal Parbat, a list of the Mt Everest toppers published by the Nepal's Ministry of Tourism and the Nepal Mountaineering Association did not include the name of Ibrahim. The list names MA Muhith and Nishat Majumder as the first Bangladeshi male and female to have climbed Mt Everest successfully. MA Muhith and Nishat Majumder also expressed doubts about Ibrahim's claims. However, Ibrahim said that there had been a conspiracy against him and NMA was influenced by the conspirator. The issue over the claim was moved to a court in Dhaka. O'Mahoney, who had followed Ibrahim towards the Everest summit, claimed that he saw him at the third step of the route, the last barrier to the Everest summit. However, by 27 May 2010, it was proven and became officially listed that Musa Ibrahim was indeed the first Bangladeshi to reach the top of Mount Everest.
Mountaineering timeline
13 June 2017: Mount Carstensz Pyramid or Puncak Jaya Summit. Musa Ibrahim reached the summit on 13 June 2017 with his team members Satyarup Siddhanta and Nandita Chandrashekhar.
23 June 2014: Mount Denali or Mount McKinley Summit. Musa Ibrahim reached the summit on 23 June 2014 with Christopher Manning as team leader while Satyarup Siddhanta, Susmita Maskey and Ryan Francois as team members.
26 June 2013: Mount Elbrus Summit. Musa Ibrahim reached the summit on 26 June 2013 with Niaz Patwary and Sifat Fahmida Nawshin and Dalhat Olmejhev, a resident of Kabardino-Balkaria Republic in Russia, guided them.
13 September 2011: Mount Kilimanjaro Summit. Musa reached the summit on 13 September 2011, with his team member Niaz Morshed Patwary.
23 May 2010: Everest Summit Musa Ibrahim reached "the summit of the Mount Everest through North Route, Tibet, China on 23 May 2010."
