A 52-year-old Nepali Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest for the twenty sixth time, bettering his personal document for many variety of instances to scale the world’s highest peak, expedition planners mentioned on Sunday.
Kami Rita and his group of 11 Sherpa guides summitted the 8,848.86-metre peak at 6.55 pm (native time), mentioned Dawa Sherpa, supervisor of Seven Summit Treks Pvt Ltd.
The Sherpas made the expedition to repair ropes alongside the trekking route, to assist climbers forward of the height climbing season beginning May.
The group climbed via the normal southeast ridge route which was pioneered by New Zealand’s Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.
This 12 months the Department of Tourism, Nepal has issued permits to 316 people to climb the height.
Rita scaled Mt Everest for the primary time on May 13, 1994. Besides Mt Everest, Rita has additionally scaled Mt Godwin-Austen (K2), Mt Lhotse, Mt Manaslu and Mt Cho Oyu.
He additionally holds the document for many climbs over 8000 metres.
Till date, Everest has been climbed 10,657 instances, many have climbed the height a number of instances. Over 300 folks have died making an attempt to scale the height.
