Kami Rita, a renowned Sherpa mountain guide, climbed Mount Everest for the 30th time on Wednesday, completing his second summit attempt this month.
Rita climbed to the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit at 7:49 a.m., according to Khim Lal Gautam, a government official at the base camp.
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His first ascent of the climbing season took place on May 12 while leading overseas guests.
“He is in good health and happy to have achieved this record,” said Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summits Treks, the expedition’s organizer.
They were able to communicate briefly with him while he was on the summit, and he was in good health, according to Mingma.
Rita was still descending to the mountain’s lower camps, and Mingma indicated that she would not be climbing again this season and would most likely return home within the next three days.
He also ascended Mount Everest twice last year, breaking the record for the most consecutive climbs of the world’s highest peak on the first and extending it less than a week later.
His nearest contender for the most Mount Everest climbs is fellow Sherpa guide Pasang Dawa, who has made 27 successful ascents.
Rita first climbed Everest in 1994 and has returned practically every year since. He is one of several Sherpa guides whose knowledge and skills are critical to the safety and success of international climbers attempting to reach the summit each year.
His father was one of the first Sherpa guides. Kami Rita has climbed several of the world’s highest peaks, including K2, Cho Oyu, Manaslu, and Lhotse.
This climbing season, which ends in a few days, has already seen over 450 climbers ascend Mount Everest from the Nepali side of the summit in the south, according to officials. April and May, when the weather is most suitable, see the majority of climbers ascend Everest and adjacent Himalayan summits.
This season, foreigners, accompanied by at least as many native Sherpa guides, received hundreds of climbing licenses from Nepalese authorities.
The mountain is also climbable from China. According to the official Xinhua news agency, Wang Jian, 70, reached the summit on Tuesday, becoming the oldest Chinese person to do so.
Edmund Hillary of New Zealand and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.
