Tuesday, October 22

Sherpa climbs Everest twenty sixth time, matching file set by fellow Nepalese information

KATHMANDU, Nepal — A Sherpa information scaled Mount Everest on Sunday for the twenty sixth time, matching the file set by a fellow Nepalese information for probably the most ascents of the world’s highest peak.

Pasang Dawa Sherpa reached the summit on Sunday morning together with a Hungarian climber, based on expedition organizer Imagine Nepal Treks.

The season’s first wave of climbers reached the summit this weekend as Sherpa guides mounted ropes and made paths for the lots of of climbers who will try to scale the height over the subsequent few weeks.

Since making his first profitable of climb of the height in 1998, Dawa has made the journey virtually yearly.

Experienced mountain information Kami Rita earlier held the file outright for probably the most climbs of Mount Everest after his twenty sixth profitable journey final yr. Rita is predicted to aim to climb the height once more later this month as he guides overseas climbers to the highest of the world.

Climbers usually attain the bottom camp of the mountain in April and spend weeks acclimatizing to the excessive altitude, tough terrain and skinny air earlier than they go up the mountain’s slopes. By the primary or second week of May, they’re often making makes an attempt for the summit.

This yr’s climbing was barely delayed after three Sherpa climbers fell right into a deep crevasse on a treacherous part of the mountain in April. Rescuers haven’t been capable of finding them.

With the opening of the path to the summit, a rush to make their makes an attempt is predicted within the subsequent couple of weeks because the Nepalese authorities have issued practically 470 permits for Everest in the course of the common spring climbing season.

This yr additionally marks the seventieth anniversary of the primary ascent of Mount Everest in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa information Tenzing Norgay.

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