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, reports said on Wednesday. Kami Rita Sherpa, who summitted Everest the 22nd time last year to set a record of most summits on Mt. Everest, stood on top of the 8,850-metres peak together with other Sherpas on Wednesday morning, the Himalayan Times reported.
Rita has been climbing Mt Everest since 1994. In 1995, he abandoned the summit bid after the deadliest avalanche killed expedition teams. In 2017, Kami became the third person to climb the Everest 21 times, equalising the achievement of Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa, both of whom have since retired.
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