A 55-year-old Nepali man has climbed the world’s highest mountain 31 times, breaking his own world record.
31 years after climbing the mountain’s 8, 849-meter (29, 032ft) peak, Sherpa climbing guide Kami Rita, who is known as “Everest Man,” reached it.
According to officials, he climbed the summit using the southeast ridge route while serving as a guide for a 22-person Sherpas-composed Indian army team.
The legendary Kami Rita Sherpa has the most successful 31 ascents in history, according to expedition organizer Seven Summit Treks, and it is “grateful to him” for his 31st successful ascent of Everest.
“No one needs to introduce you to Kami Rita Sherpa. He is a “global symbol of Everest itself,” it continued. He is not just a national climbing hero. Kami Rita was heading down to lower camps on Tuesday, according to a company director.
Kami Rita, the son of a Sherpa guide, first climbed Everest in 1994, and he has since reached the top almost every year. The only time the mountain has been closed to climbers has been when Kami Rita first visited.
Kami Rita, who had previously broken the previous record-breaking height in May 2024, claimed he was “just working” and that he was not particularly motivated by breaking new records.
He said, “Records eventually get broken, but I’m glad for the record.”
“It makes me happier that my climbing contributes to the recognition of Nepal in the world.”
Another Sherpa, Pasang Dawa, has 29 summits, making them the second-highest number of Everest summits. The pair have been competing to reach Everest’s top three times.
Nepal’s tourism ministry’s mountaineering and adventure division director Himal Gautam claimed Kami Rita’s success had “helped take Nepal’s mountaineering sector to the next height.”
Source: Aljazeera
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