Two Nepali Sherpa climbers break own records on Mount Everest
Key takeaways
- Kami Rita Sherpa breaks his own record with a 32nd climb while Lhakpa Sherpa breaks her own women’s record with an 11th summit of Mount Everest.
- “This is another milestone in Nepal’s mountaineering history,” Himal Gautam, spokesperson for Nepal’s Tourism Department, told the AFP news agency on Sunday.
- Kami Rita Sherpa, 56, first stood on top of the world’s highest mountain in 1994 while working for a commercial expedition.
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Kami Rita Sherpa breaks his own record with a 32nd climb while Lhakpa Sherpa breaks her own women’s record with an 11th summit of Mount Everest.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Nepali mountaineers Kami Rita Sherpa and Lhakpa Sherpa visit the statues of Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary to mark the 11th International Everest Day in Kathmandu on May 29, 2018 [Prakash Mathematics/AFP]By AP and Reuters Published On 17 May 202617 May 2026Two renowned Nepali guides have scaled Mount Everest with one called the “Everest Man” breaking his own record set last year with a 32nd climb and the other, known as the “Mountain Queen”, breaking her own women’s record with an 11th summit.
“This is another milestone in Nepal’s mountaineering history,” Himal Gautam, spokesperson for Nepal’s Tourism Department, told the AFP news agency on Sunday.