Man sets world record for climbing Mount Everest 27 times

Mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa at Everest base camp in 2021. (Photo: AFP/Getty Images)

Nepalese mountain guide Kami Rita, 53, reached the summit of Mount Everest for the 27th time on May 17, setting a record for the number of times he has climbed the world's highest mountain.

Meanwhile, at the same time on the morning of May 17, British mountain guide Kenton Cool reached the world's highest peak for the 17th time, improving his own record for the most times a non-Nepalese person has climbed the world's highest mountain.

Kami Rita, 53, has held the title of most summits since 2018, when he climbed Everest for the 22nd time, surpassing the previous milestone he shared with two other Sherpa climbers.

However, on May 14, another climber, Pasang Dawa, 46 years old, set a record by reaching the summit for the 26th time.

Kami Rita has been a mountain guide for more than two decades, first summiting Everest in 1994 while working for a commercial expedition.

Since then, he has climbed Mount Everest almost every year.

Known as the Everest man, he was born in 1970 in Thame, a Himalayan village famous for producing successful mountaineers.

Nepalese mountain guides, often ethnic Sherpas from the valleys surrounding Everest, are considered the linchpin of the mountaineering industry.

Nepal is home to eight of the world's 10 highest peaks, including the 8,849m Everest, and welcomes hundreds of adventurers every spring, when temperatures are warm and winds are calm.

Nepalese authorities have issued 478 permits to foreign climbers in 2023, costing $11,000 out of a total cost of $45,000 to $200,000 for a climb to Mount Everest.

VNA

Source: http://www.baovanhoa.vn/the-thao/artmid/422/articleid/64547/nguoi-dan-ong-lap-ky-luc-the-gioi-27-lan-leo-len-dinh-everest