Kami Rita Sherpa breaks his own record by scaling Everest for 27th time

KATHMANDU: Climber Kami Rita Sherpa has scaled Mount Everest for the 27th time.

The 53-year-old mountaineer stood atop the highest mountain in the world today morning at 8:30 am, confirmed Yuwaraj Khatiwada, Director of the Department of Tourism.

The original resident of Thame in Khumbu Pasang Lhamu Rural Municipality in Solukhumbu district and currently residing in Kathmandu, Kamirita broke his own record of climbing the 8,848.86 metres mountain and thereby creating a new one.

Khatiwada shared that the expedition was going on in full swing and the number of expedition groups making it to the top of the Mt Everest today could not be ascertained owing to lack of communications with the climbers inching towards the summit.

He said that there was a high prospect of many mountaineers reaching atop the Everest by today evening. “Some ‘good news’ could be broken by today evening,” he remarked.

Kami Rita has previously shattered his own record for the 26th time and created a new record by successfully conquering Mount Everest for the 27th time.

Kami Rita, who was born in Thame, Solukhumbu, in 1970, has held the record for ascending Mt. Everest since 2018. On May 16, 2018, he climbed Mount Everest for the 22nd time, shattering Appa Sherpa’s record.

Kami Rita set the record for climbing the highest 8,000-meter peak on May 13, 1994.

Imagine Nepal Treks and Expedition Company’s Director Mingma Gyalzen Sherpa informed that over 100 mountaineers including Kamirita have climbed Mt Everest so far this spring while as many were on a summit push bid today.

A record number of climbers are attempting to scale the Mt Everest this spring as Nepal issued the highest number of the Everest climbing permits in history for the season since the first successful ascent of the Everest on May 29, 1953.

The Department issued 478 permits for 44 groups for this season, it was shared.