Seventeen-year-old Asha Noor Shehryar never envisioned becoming a mountaineer, let alone the youngest American woman to summit the world’s eighth-highest mountain.
That all changed Sept. 23 when the Gallatin High School senior reached the summit of 26,781-foot Mount Manaslu in the Nepalese Himalayas at 4:10 a.m.
“It was so tiring, but when I got to the summit, I got a little teary-eyed, I kind of couldn’t believe I made it. It just felt surreal,” Shehryar said…