Nepali guide breaks own record by climbing Everest 25 times

TIL Desk/World/Kathmandu/ Kami Rita Sherpa, a Nepali mountain guide, broke his own record by climbing Mt. Everest for the 25th time on Friday. “Sherpa reached the summit of Mt. Everest at 6 p.m. local time on Friday,” Mira Acharya, director of Nepal’s Department of Tourism, told. “It is his 25th summit on the mountain,” the official said.

A leader of the rope fixing team, Kami made his way to the top along with 11 other Sherpas from the Nepali side, becoming one of the first climbers in the season to conquer the 8848.86-meter-high peak situated along the China-Nepal border, according to a social media post by Seven Summit Treks, one of the leading expedition organising companies in Nepal with which Kami works as a senior climbing guide.

Kami, 51, scaled Mt. Everest in May 1994 for the first time and he achieved a feat of climbing the mountain twice in a single season in 2019 within less than a week as he reached the top for the 23rd and 24th times. “His latest success has provided encouragement to the mountaineering community around the world at a time when the world is under the grip of the Covid-19 pandemic,” Mingma Sherpa, chairperson of Seven Summit Treks, told.