ISLAMABAD: Hiking officials said on Sunday that Nepali sherpa guide Pasang Dawa Sherpa climbed Mount Everest for a record 26th time and becoming the world’s 2nd person to attain the achievement.
Sherpa stood atop the 8,849-meter peak, sharing the record number of mounting summits with Kami Rita Sherpa, a government tourism official Bigyan Koirala said.
According to Reuters, now, Kami Rita, climbing on the tallest Everest, could set another record if he makes it to the peak.
Pasang Dawa reached the summit with a client from Hungary, said an official of his employer’s hiking company Imagine Nepal Treks. Sherpa said they are descending from the summit now and in good shape, Reuters reported. Sherpas, who often use their first names, are known for their climbing talents and make a living mostly by guiding foreign clients in the tall mountains. Dawa Futi said a Pakistani female climber Naila Kiani, who also climbed the summit on Sunday, was the first foreign climber to scale Everest in this year’s climbing season, spanning from March to May. The 37-year-old banker Kiani, based in Dubai, had climbed 4 of the world’s fourteen highest mountains before Everest.
Nepal has issued 467 scaling permits this year for foreign climbers seeking to reach the peak of Everest. Usually, each climber is accompanied by at least one Sherpa guide, increasing fears that a narrow section below the peak, known as the Hillary Step, could get crowded.
Mount Everest has been climbed over 11,000 times
Everest has been climbed over 11,000 times since it was first climbed by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, with nearly 320 people dying in the effort, as per the records of a Himalayan database and Nepali officials.
