A renowned Nepali Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for the 32nd time on Sunday, an official said, smashing his âown record set last year. Kami Rita Sherpa, 56, reached the 8,849-metre (29,032 âfoot) peak â the highest in the world â while guiding clients from the 14 Peaks Expedition company. Nepalâs Department of Tourism congratulated the Sherpa for achieving the âhistoric milestoneâ and âfor his contributions to promoting mountain tourism. He reached the summit at â10.12 a.m. (12.27 a.m. ET) on Sunday, it said in a statement, â adding that a Sherpa woman, Lakhpa, 52, had made her 11th ascent âto the peak, the most by a woman. Details of the climbs âwere 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 âclimb Everest in 1953. Kami Rita climbed the peak for the first time âin 1994 and has repeated the feat every year except in 2014, 2015 and â2020, â 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
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A record 274 climbers scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, the highest number to reach the summit from the mountainâs south side in a single day, a Nepali hiking official said. Thatâs nearly 50 more than the previous high of 223 set on…
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A record 274 climbers scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, the highest number to reach the summit from the mountainâs south side in a single day, a Nepali hiking official said. Thatâs nearly 50 more than the previous…
Read original at CNN →A renowned Nepali Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for the 32nd time on Sunday, an official said, smashing his âown record set last year. Kami Rita Sherpa, 56, reached the 8,849-metre (29,032 âfoot) peak â the…
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A record 274 climbers scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, the highest number to reach the summit from the mountainâs south side in a single day, a Nepali hiking official said. Thatâs nearly 50 more than the previous high of 223 set on…
View source →A renowned Nepali Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for the 32nd time on Sunday, an official said, smashing his âown record set last year. Kami Rita Sherpa, 56, reached the 8,849-metre (29,032 âfoot) peak â the highest in the world…
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