Sherpa climber Kami Rita scaled Mt. Qomolangma on Wednesday for a 23rd time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents¹ of the world's highest peak.

 

夏尔巴登山者卡米·里塔周三第23次登上珠穆朗玛峰，打破了他自己的记录，成为登顶珠峰次数最多的人。
 

 

Rita reached the summit with other climbers Wednesday morning and all of them were reported to be safe, said Gyanendra Shrestha, a Nepalese government official at the mountain's base camp.

 

Mt. Qomolangma, also known as Mt. Everest.

 

Rita's two closest peers have climbed the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak 21 times each, but both of them have retired² from mountain climbing.

 

"It is my profession, but at the same time I am setting new world record for Nepal too," Rita told The Associated Press last month before heading to the mountain.

 

Rita, 49, first scaled Mt. Qomolangma in 1994 and has been making the trip nearly every year since, one of many Sherpa guides whose expertise³ and skills are vital to the safety and success of the hundreds of climbers who head to Nepal each year seeking to stand on top of the world.

 

His father was among the first Sherpa guides employed to help climbers reach the summit, and Rita followed in his footsteps and then some. In addition to his nearly two dozen summits of Mt. Qomolangma, Rita has scaled several other peaks that are among the world's highest, including K-2, Cho-Oyu, Manaslu and Lhotse.

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