Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita reached the summit of Mount Everest on Wednesday morning and is now safely descending, according to government officials at base camp
A veteran Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 22nd time, setting the record for most climbs of the world’s highest mountain, officials said.
Kami Rita reached the summit on Wednesday morning with a team of foreign climbers and a fellow Sherpa guide and is safely descending to a lower camp, said Gyanendra Shrestha, a government official stationed at base camp.
Mr Rita, 48, had been among the three men who had tied the previous record of 21 successful ascents of the 29,000ft peak.
Before leaving for the mountain last month, he said he wanted to scale Everest at least 25 times.
Mountaineering has been his family tradition.
His father was among the first professional guides after Nepal opened to foreign trekkers and mountaineers in 1950, and his brother has scaled Everest 17 times.
Most of his male relatives have reached the top least once.
