Conquest of Mt Everest for Record 23rd Time by a Nepali Mountaineer
The climbing season starts from March through May every year. 49-year-old Kami Rita Sherpa started the climb from Nepal side, which is one of the two routes to the peak, the other being from Tibet side.
Kami Rita Sherpa has become the first person in the world to climb Mouth Everest for the maximum number of times with his 23rd conquest of the highest summit on Earth recently.
The climbing season starts from March through May every year. 49-year-old Kami Rita Sherpa started the climb from Nepal side, which is one of the two routes to the peak, the other being from Tibet side.
Kami Rita Sherpa, along with seven other climbers reached the top of Mount Everest on Tuesday, thereby opening the route for a potentially record number of climbers to summit the world's highest peaks, this year.
A team of experienced mountaineers was waiting for powerful jet streams raging around the top of Everest to fix ropes so to help foreign climbers during the summit. That’s when Kami and his team reached the top and helped them in their work.
Iswari Poudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal, the company, which is assigned to fix the ropes, said, “It has been difficult this year and we were getting worried. But the weather finally improved for the eight to reach the top”.
Poudel also informed that many teams were preparing to summit in the next few days. This year Nepal has issued a record 378 permits to each mountaineer, which costs around $11,000 for this year’s climbing season. A Nepali guide, mountaineer or Sherpa escorts most of the Everest climbers.
Sherpas are known for their forbearance and experience at high altitudes, therefore they serve as guides for many foreign climbers who attempt to climb the highest Himalayan peaks.
This year nearly 750 climbers will follow the same path to the top of the 8,850-metre (29,035-foot) peak from Nepal side. And at least 140 others are preparing to scale Everest using the northern route, which is from the Tibet side.
Everest attracts hundreds of mountaineers every year, when a window of good weather opens up between late April and the end of May.
Last year a record 807 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everest with 563 people climbing from the south side in Nepal and 244 from the northern side in Tibet. The mountain also claimed the lives of five climbers, including an experienced Sherpa guide.
Since, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent in the year 1953, climbers now have made mountaineering a lucrative business. And with each passing year, the concerns too are mounting with fears of dangerous overcrowding as well as a worsening environmental situation.