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Nepalese mountain guide climbs Mount Everest for 27th time
Veteran Nepalese Sherpa guide Kami Rita has scaled Mount Everest for the 27th time, beating his own record. photo
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Summit reached: This is not the first time that Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest, the highest mountain in the world. He did this for the first time in 1994.
The well-known Nepalese mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for the 27th time, beating his own record. The 53-year-old reached the summit of the world’s highest mountain at a good 8,848 meters on Wednesday morning as a mountain guide for a mountaineering group from the expedition company Seven Summit Treks, said an employee of the Ministry of Tourism, who is currently at Everest Base Camp, the German press Agency.
Kami Rita Sherpa conquered Mount Everest for the first time in 1994 and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, has repeated it almost every year since then. He also scaled several other eight-thousanders in the Himalayas. Sherpas are a Himalayan ethnic group whose members often work as guides and porters for mountaineers from abroad. Kami Rita Sherpa himself was initially a porter and later a mountain guide.
Everest’s peak season occurs from April to June, as that is when there are the most favorable weather windows for climbing the mountain on the Nepal-Chinese-administered Tibet border. In the current season, more than 250 foreign climbers and local helpers have reached the top of Everest, the tourism ministry official said. Accordingly, more than 100 of them this Wednesday. A total of 478 foreign climbers received a $11,000 permit from Nepal’s tourism ministry to climb Everest, officials said.
Kami Rita Sherpa’s successful ascent comes just days after another Nepalese mountain guide, Pasang Dawa Sherpa, matched Kami Rita Sherpa’s previous record of 26 Everest ascents.