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Sherpa guide scales Mt. Qomolangma for record 25th time
    2021-05-10  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

A SHERPA guide scaled Mount Qomolangma for the 25th time Friday, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest peak.

Kami Rita and 11 other Sherpa guides reached the summit at about 6 p.m.

They are the first group of climbers to reach the summit this year and were fixing the ropes on the icy route so that hundreds of other climbers can scale the peak later this month.

The mountain was closed to climbing last year on both its southern side, which is in Nepal, and its northern side, which is in China, because of the coronavirus pandemic. Nepal has issued climbing permits this year to 408 foreign climbers despite a surging COVID-19 outbreak.

China has opened the northern slope to only a few dozen mountaineers who will be tested for the coronavirus and must keep their distance while climbing.

Rita, 51, first scaled the mountain in 1994 and has been making the trip nearly every year since then. He is one of many Sherpa guides whose expertise 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 8,848.86-metermountain.

His father was among the first Sherpa guides, then Rita followed in his footsteps. In addition to his 25 times to the top of Qomolangma, Rita has scaled several other world’s highest peaks, including K-2, Cho-Oyu, Manaslu and Lhotse. He was at the base camp of Qomolangma in 2015 when an avalanche swept through, killing 19 people. After that tragedy, he came under intense family pressure to quit mountaineering, but in the end decided against it.

(SD-Agencies)

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