Nepali Sherpa scales Mount Everest for a record 32nd time | CNN

A renowned Nepali Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for the 32nd time on Sunday, an official said, smashing his ​own record set last year. Kami Rita Sherpa, 56, reached the 8,849-metre (29,032 ‌foot) peak — the highest in the world — while guiding clients from the 14 Peaks Expedition company. Nepal’s Department of Tourism congratulated the Sherpa for achieving the “historic milestone” and ​for his contributions to promoting mountain tourism. He reached the summit at ​10.12 a.m. (12.27 a.m. ET) on Sunday, it said in a statement, ⁠adding that a Sherpa woman, Lakhpa, 52, had made her 11th ascent ​to the peak, the most by a woman. Details of the climbs ​were not available. Kami Rita was born in the same Thame village in Solukhumbu district as Tenzing Norgay. Norgay and New Zealander Edmund Hillary were the first to ​climb Everest in 1953. Kami Rita climbed the peak for the first time ​in 1994 and has repeated the feat every year except in 2014, 2015 and ‌2020, ⁠when expeditions to Everest were closed for different reasons. He reached the summit twice in some years. More than 8,000 people have climbed Mount Everest, many of them several times, since it wa