Kami Rita, a 55-year-old Sherpa generally known as “Everest Man”, first climbed the world’s highest mountain in 1994.
A 55-year-old Nepali man has damaged his personal world document for climbing Mount Everest, summiting Earth’s highest mountain for the thirty first time.
Kami Rita, a Sherpa climbing information generally known as “Everest Man”, reached the mountain’s 8,849-metre (29,032ft) peak on Tuesday, 31 years after first making the summit.
Officers mentioned he reached the summit by way of the southeast ridge route, whereas appearing as a information to a 22-member Indian military staff, accompanied by 27 different Sherpas.
“Large congratulations to the legendary Kami Rita Sherpa on his thirty first profitable ascent of Everest, the very best variety of ascents by anybody in historical past,” expedition organiser Seven Summit Treks mentioned.
“Kami Rita Sherpa wants no introduction. He is not only a nationwide climbing hero, however a worldwide image of Everest itself,” it added. A director for the corporate mentioned Kami Rita was making his approach right down to decrease camps on Tuesday.
Kami Rita, the son of a Sherpa information, first climbed Everest in 1994, and has made it to the summit almost yearly since, aside from throughout years when authorities closed the mountain to climbers.
Chatting with the AFP information company in Might 2024 after a earlier record-breaking climb, Kami Rita mentioned he was not particularly motivated by setting information, and that he was “simply working”.
“I’m glad for the document, however information are ultimately damaged,” he mentioned.
“I’m extra comfortable that my climbs assist Nepal be recognised on the planet.”
The climber with the second highest variety of Everest summits to their identify is one other Sherpa, Pasang Dawa, with 29. The pair have been in competition for who could make it to the highest of Everest probably the most occasions.
Himal Gautam, director of the mountaineering and journey part of Nepal’s vacationer ministry, instructed AFP Kami Rita’s achievement had “helped to take Nepal’s mountaineering sector to the subsequent top”.
Greater than 8,000 individuals have reached the height of Mount Everest because it was first summited by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
