Nepalese Kami Rita Sherpa, holder of the record for the most ascents of Everest, passed its own mark this Wednesday climbing the tallest mountain on the planet again, adding 27 ascents in a three-decade career.
kami Rita Sherpa, 53 years old, climbed the 8,848.86-meter mountain on Wednesday at 8:30am (4:45am GMT). Kami Rita’s climbing career began in 1992 when he joined an Everest expedition as a porter.
Rita broke her record last time last year, when he reached the summit for the 26th time as the leader of a team of rope menders and accompanied by 10 other mountaineering Sherpas.
In addition to Everest, the sherpa he has climbed Cho Oyu eight timesof 8,201 meters in altitude, three times the Manaslu, of 8,163 meters, and once the K2 and Lhotse, which rise respectively to 8,611 and 8,516 meters above sea level.
About 7,000 climbers have scaled Everest from the Nepalese side since Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and New Zealander Edmund Percival Hillary first set foot on the summit of the world’s highest peak in May 1953.
Official Bigyan Koirala of the Department of Tourism, the government agency that issues climbing permits, told EFE that it had issued Everest permits to a record 478 paying people this climbing season, which runs until at the end of May.
The issuance of permits is suspended. This is the most permits we have ever issued for Everest, Koirala said.
The highest number so far was in 2021, when the Nepal Department of Tourism issued 409 permits.
This number was reduced to 325 in 2022, as a result of the Russian invasion of Ukraine preventing the travel of potential climbers from Russia, Ukraine, Poland and other European countries.
So far this season, according to mountaineering officials, six people have died on Everest.
Source: Clarin
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