49-yr-old sherpa scales Everest for 23rd time, sets world record

KATHMANDU: A 49-year-old veteran Nepali sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for the 23rd time, breaking his own record in reaching atop the world’s highest peak, media reports said on Wednesday.
Kami Rita Sherpa, who summited Everest 22nd time last year to set record of most summits on Mount Everest, stood on top of the 8,850-metres peak together with other sherpas on Wednesday morning, the ‘Himalayan Times’ reported.
“Kami Rita Sherpa from Thame village of Solukhumbu district successfully climbed Mount Everest at around 7.50am from Nepal side breaking his own record for most summits on the roof of the world,” Mingma Sherpa, chairman at Seven Summit Treks, was quoted as saying by the paper.
Rita has been climbing Mount Everest since 1994. He couldn’t climb the Everest in 1995 after his client got sick on the way to the summit, ‘My Republica’ reported.
In 1995, he abandoned the summit bid after the deadliest avalanche killed expedition teams.
In 2017, Kami became the third person to climb Mount Everest for the 21st time, equalising the achievement of Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa, both of whom have since retired.
Kami broke record for set record of most summits on Mount Everest in 2018.