Nima Rinji Sherpa has returned home to Nepal, after climbing 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000 metres and is calling on the younger generation of Sherpas to rise above the stereotype of being support climbers and embrace their potential as top-tier athletes.

Nima Rinji Sherpa's achievement still needs to be confirmed by the Guinness World Records - but he said he wanted his efforts to show how the younger generation of Sherpas can be "trailblazers".

Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, becomes the youngest person to summit all 14 of the world’s 8 000-metre peaks, returning home to cheering crowds in Nepal.

A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world's 14 highest peaks returned home to Nepal to a hero's welcome on Monday. Nima Rinji Sherpa, 18, reached the 8,027-meter (26,335-foot) summit of Mount Shishapangma in China last week,

Nima Rinji Sherpa has set a record as the youngest person in the world to summit all of the world's 8,000-meter peaks. Scores of well-wishers came to greet him at the airport.