With this, Nepal has collected the royalties of $3.25 million from Everest alone. Browse 74 kami rita stock photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more stock photos and images. He holds the record for ‘Most climbs over 8,000 metres’, with 38 climbs.Īccording to the Department of Tourism, as many as 316 people have applied to scale Everest in this season.
Kami Rita Sherpa, leading 11 other Sherpas, had undertaken the mission of fixing. KATHMANDU: A 52-year-old Nepali Sherpa climbed the world's highest peak, Mt Everest, for the 25th time on Friday, breaking his own record for summiting the mountain most number of times. Kami Rita has climbed most of the peaks of mountains above 8,000 metres in the world, including K2, the second highest peak in the world, and Annapurna. Kami Rita Sherpa had climbed Mt Everest for the 24th time in 2019. His brother, also a guide, scaled Everest 17 times.Īfter ascending Everest for the 25th time last year, he told the media that he planned to scale the peak one more time before retirement, saying: “Not just for myself, but for my family, the Sherpa people and for my country, Nepal.”
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His father was among the first professional Sherpa guides after Everest was opened for foreign mountaineers in 1950. Kami Rita Sherpa, Nepal, 14 summits Purba Chhoter Sherpa (Ang Jangbu), 8 summits Chhewang Dorji Sherpa, Nepal, 9 summits Chhiring (Tsering) Namgel Sherpa, Nepal, 4 summits Da Thuk Bhote, Nepal, 3 summits Passang Bhote, 7 summits Nima Tsering, Nepal, 6 summits It can be hard to determine who is who sometimes, as there are some similar names. He first climbed the Everest in May 1994. Even more remarkably, he’d made his 23rd climb just six days earlier.
Leading a 11-rope fixing team, Kami Rita and his team reached the summit on Saturday, breaking his own previous world record, Chhang Dawa Sherpa, expedition manager at Seven Summit Treks, the organiser of the expedition, told IANS.Īfter ascending Everest, the rope fixing team led by Kami Rita is successfully descending from the top to the base camp, Chhang said.Īs the Everest climbing season is approaching fast and hundreds of climbers are waiting for fair weather to reach the top, Kami Rita and his team went to the top of Everest to fix the rope so that the Everest expedition becomes easier for the other climbers.īorn in 1970 in Solukhumbu district, he started breaking world records one after another after 2018. When Kami Rita Sherpa (NPL), aka 'Thapke', topped this prodigious peak on, it was his 24th summit the most ascents of Everest by any individual overall.
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