Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed the highest mountain on earth 26 times. But he doesn’t want to leave it at that.
Kathmandu – The well-known Nepalese mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa wants to climb the world’s highest mountain, Mount Everest, for the 27th time. In the spring season of Everest, which is about to begin, he is to lead a team of American mountaineers to the 8,848-meter-high peak, he told the German Press Agency on Monday.
Kami Rita Sherpa conquered Mount Everest for the first time in 1994 and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, has repeated it almost every year since then. He also scaled several other eight-thousanders in the Himalayas.
Sherpas are a Himalayan ethnic group whose members often work as mountain guides and porters for mountaineers from abroad. Kami Rita Sherpa was a porter and later a mountain guide.
Everest’s peak season runs from April to June, when there are the best weather windows for climbing the mountain on the Nepal-Chinese-administered Tibet border. So far, 197 mountaineers have received the necessary climbing permits for the upcoming season from the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism for 11,000 dollars (around 10,000 euros), the authority said. According to the “Kathmandu Post”, the number is likely to increase significantly. dpa
