Kami Rita Sherpa climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time on Saturday, setting a new world record for the most climbs in the world.
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Kami Rita Sherpa climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time on Saturday, setting a new world record for the most climbs in the world.
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Nepalese mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa made history Saturday after climbing Everest for the 26th time. Sherpa is already a world record holder, having surpassed Everest five times in four years.
On Saturday, the 52-year-old climbing guide broke the previous world record for 25 inclines for the world’s tallest mountain, which he set last May.
Kami Rita has set and broken the world record for Mount Everest almost every spring for the past four years.
With over 35 years of climbing experience, Kami Rita is a world famous mountaineer. He first set a record to climb Everest at the age of 22 in May 2018after sharing the 21-peak record with two other climbers.
He broke that the year after climbing Everest for the 23rd time on May 15, 2019, according to Guinness World Records. Kami Rita broke his own record six days later with his 24th fight.
Friends and family congratulate Kami Rita, 48 at the time, in Kathmandu, Nepal, in May 2018 after setting a new world record for climbing Mount Everest 22 times.
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Friends and family congratulate Kami Rita, 48 at the time, in Kathmandu, Nepal, in May 2018 after setting a new world record for climbing Mount Everest 22 times.
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It is possible that Kami Rita could have reached an even higher number of summits now if it had not been for the COVID-19 pandemic. Nepal and China 2020 climbing season canceled. When Everest reopened the following year, Kami Rita broke his record again, with a successful 25th summit.
Kami Rita didn’t make it to the top on his first try in 1992, he told Guinness. However, he completed the climb two years later.
Kami Rita’s life has been associated with the mountains since he was a child. His father, Mingma Tshering Sherpa, was one of the first professional guides on Everest when Nepal began allowing international climbers in 1950. And Kami Rita worked as a porter transporting equipment. came to Everest base camp at the age of 12.
Mount Everest is part of the Himalayas in the Tibetan Plateau of Central Asia, nicknamed the “Roof of the World.” Everest reaches an altitude of about 29,032 feet above sea level That number is subject to change.
The the first to be recognized to conquer the mountain was New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary and his Nepali partner Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Today, several thousand people have summited Everest in the nearly 70 years since. The mountain has also claimed the lives of more than 300 adventure seekers.
The same day Kami Rita broke his record, Russian mountaineer Pavel Kostrikin died at Camp I on Saturday night, The Kathmandu Post reportmarks the second death of the season.
