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BBC News
27-05-2025
- General
- BBC News
'Everest Man' beats own record for most climbs up Mount Everest
For most people climbing Mount Everest is a once in a lifetime experience but not for this guy. Kami Rita is a sherpa from Nepal - someone who guides people up to the summit - and has reached the top of the famous mountain not once, not twice but 31 times! He's broken his own record yet again for the most climbs up the world's tallest peak while guiding a group of Indian army officials up the reached the 8,849m summit at 04:00 local time on Tuesday 27 May 2025. Kami Rita is a Nepali sherpa. Sherpa is the name of a local ethnic group of people who live in the mountains of Nepal, in central Asia, and sherpa is also used to describe someone who is a mountain guide working in the Everest has been a guide on the mountain for more than 20 years and first climbed the summit in on his heels for the record is fellow Nepali sherpa Pasang Dawa who has scaled the peak 29 times. His record-breaking climb comes just a week after British climber Kenton Cool broke the record for most climbs of Mount Everest for a non-sherpa - reaching the summit for the 19th time. Fun fact: Kenton's 18th climb was guided by the Everest Man himself.
ABC News
27-05-2025
- Sport
- ABC News
Sherpa scales Mount Everest for 31st time, beating non-Sherpa record by 12 climbs
Nepali Sherpa guide Kami Rita has scaled Mount Everest for a record 31st time, beating a non-Sherpa record set last week by 12 climbs. The 55-year-old reached the 8,849-metre peak — the highest in the world — by the traditional south-east ridge route while guiding a 22-member Indian army team, officials said. Pasang Phurba, the director of the trekking company where Kami Rita works, said the record-holder was currently descending to lower camps. Kami Rita, who uses only his first name, first climbed Everest in 1994 and has done so every year except for three years when authorities closed the mountain to climbers for various reasons. More than 8,000 people have climbed Mount Everest since it was first scaled by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953. Second to Kami Rita, Sherpa Pasang Dawa has ascended Everest 29 times. The non-Sherpa record is held by British guide Kenton Cool. He scaled Everest for the 19th time on May 18, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world's highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide. Mr Cool first climbed Mount Everest in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since then. His non-Sherpa record is followed by American climbers Dave Hahn and Garrett Madison with 15 times each. One of the poorest countries in the world, Nepal is home to eight of the world's 14 highest peaks and is heavily reliant on climbing, trekking, and tourism for foreign exchange. Guiding foreign climbers to Everest and other peaks provides crucial family income to many Sherpas. Authorities have issued 468 permits to climbers for Everest this March-May climbing season, and more than 300 climbers and Sherpas have already scaled the peak, officials said. Two climbers are known to have died on the mountain this month and there have also been unconfirmed reports of other deaths. ABC/AFP
Yahoo
27-05-2025
- Yahoo
Nepal's 'Everest Man' sets record with 31st summit
Nepali sherpa Kami Rita, also known as "Everest Man", has scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time, breaking his own record for the most climbs up the world's tallest peak. The 55-year-old, who was guiding a group of Indian army officials up the mountain, reached its 8,894m summit at 04:00 local time on Tuesday (23:15 GMT Monday). "Kami Rita Sherpa needs no introduction. He is not just a national climbing hero, but a global symbol of Everest itself," expedition organiser Seven Summit Treks said in a statement. Kami Rita first summited Everest in 1994 guiding a commercial expedition and has made the peak almost ever year since. He scaled it twice some years, like in 2023 and 2024. His closest competitor for the Everest record is fellow Nepali sherpa Pasang Dawa, who scaled the peak 29 times - the latest attempt made last week. Kami Rita has previously told media how his climbs are just work. "I am glad for the record, but records are eventually broken," he told AFP in May last year. "I am more happy that my climbs help Nepal be recognised in the world." Earlier this month, Kami Rita posted snippets of life on Everest, including one of the Puja ceremony, a Tibetan Buddhist ritual done before Everest expeditions to pray for a safe and successful climb. Kami Rita's feat comes one week after British mountaineer Kenton Cool summited Everest for the 19th time, also breaking his own record for the most climbs for a non-sherpa. More than 500 people and their guides have climbed Everest successfully this climbing season, which is coming to an end. Nepal issued more than 1,000 climbing permits this season - including for Everest and other peaks - according to its tourism department. The number of Everest summit attempts has soared in recent years. However this has led to concerns around overcrowding and environmental impact. Last year, authorities introduced a rule requiring climbers to clear up their own poo and bring it back to base camp to be disposed of. Everest's highest glacier melting fast, study says Deadly Everest season puts focus on record permits
BBC News
27-05-2025
- Sport
- BBC News
Mount Everest: Nepali sherpa breaks own record with 31st summit
Nepali sherpa Kami Rita, also known as "Everest Man", has scaled Mount Everest for the 31st time, breaking his own record for the most climbs up the world's tallest 55-year-old, who was guiding a group of Indian army officials up the mountain, reached its 8,894m summit at 04:00 local time on Tuesday (23:15 GMT Monday)."Kami Rita Sherpa needs no introduction. He is not just a national climbing hero, but a global symbol of Everest itself," expedition organiser Seven Summit Treks said in a Rita first summited Everest in 1994 guiding a commercial expedition and has made the peak almost ever year since. He scaled it twice some years, like in 2023 and closest competitor for the Everest record is fellow Nepali sherpa Pasang Dawa, who scaled the peak 29 times - the latest attempt made last Rita has previously told media how his climbs are just work."I am glad for the record, but records are eventually broken," he told AFP in May last year. "I am more happy that my climbs help Nepal be recognised in the world."Earlier this month, Kami Rita posted snippets of life on Everest, including one of the Puja ceremony, a Tibetan Buddhist ritual done before Everest expeditions to pray for a safe and successful Rita's feat comes one week after British mountaineer Kenton Cool summited Everest for the 19th time, also breaking his own record for the most climbs for a non-sherpa. More than 500 people and their guides have climbed Everest successfully this climbing season, which is coming to an issued more than 1,000 climbing permits this season - including for Everest and other peaks - according to its tourism department. The number of Everest summit attempts has soared in recent years. However this has led to concerns around overcrowding and environmental impact. Last year, authorities introduced a rule requiring climbers to clear up their own poo and bring it back to base camp to be disposed of.
Belfast Telegraph
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Belfast Telegraph
Climbing legend on summiting Everest 18 times: ‘I've a wife and kids, I've no plans of dying on a mountain'
Kenton Cool, who holds the record for summiting the world's highest peak, is coming to NI to tell his story. Here, he talks about the beauty and danger of his chosen pursuit, and how late Co Down climber Noel Hanna was 'one of the big characters' on the scene. British climber and mountain guide Kenton Cool has summited Mount Everest 18 times, a world record for any non-Nepali. Quite a feat considering that following a fall in Wales in 1996 at the age of 23, he was told by doctors that he would never climb again. Thankfully, that wasn't quite the case and he is set to visit Northern Ireland next month to tell his remarkable story.
