![]() ![]() Nepalese authorities issued about 470 permits to climb Everest this season. ![]() Hundreds of climbers and their local guides are currently on Everest and a rush for the summit is expected in the next few weeks. Both Kami Rita and Pasang Dawa are still on the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) mountain with their climbing groups and there is a chance they could reach the summit again before the spring climbing season finishes at the end of this month. ![]() Another Sherpa guide, Pasang Dawa, has scaled it 26 times. ![]() Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita climbed the mountain this week for a record 27th time. Only Nepali Sherpa guides have scaled the peak more times than Cool. “I am just happy we had a great climb and that we are back.” Mountains are bigger than records,” Cool said at Kathmandu airport after getting off the helicopter that brought him back from Everest. “I really don’t think records belong on the mountains. Kenton Cool first climbed Mount Everest in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since then. KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) - A British mountain guide returned to Nepal’s capital on Friday after scaling Mount Everest for a 17th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide. ![]()
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