Nepalese mountaineer summits Everest for record 27th time

He climbed Everest for the 27th time. Nepalese mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa reached the summit of the highest mountain in the world on Wednesday (May 17th), beating his own record for the greatest number of Everest ascents, announced the organizer of his expedition.

A mountain guide for more than 20 years, Kami Rita Sherpa, 53, first climbed Everest in 1994. Nicknamed “the Everest man”, he was born in 1970 in Thame , a village in the Himalayas, a breeding ground for experienced mountaineers.

Five deaths since the beginning of the year

Nepal is home to eight of the ten highest peaks in the world, including Everest, which rises to 8,849 m above sea level, and welcomes hundreds of climbers each season, when the temperatures are milder and the winds generally weaker.

The mountaineering season started tragically this year on Everest with the disappearance of three Nepalese climbers in April and that of an American in early May. A 46-year-old Moldovan mountaineer also died on the mountain on Wednesday.