A Nepalese sherpa guide yesterday climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time, hiking officials said, becoming the world’s second person to achieve the feat.
Pasang Dawa Sherpa, 46, stood atop the 8,849m peak, sharing the record number of summits with Kami Rita Sherpa, said Bigyan Koirala, a government tourism official.
Kami Rita, who is also climbing on Everest, could set another record if he makes it to the top.
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Pasang Dawa reached the top with a Hungarian client, said an official of his employer, hiking company Imagine Nepal Treks.
“They are descending from the top now and are in good shape,” the official, Dawa Futi Sherpa, said.
Sherpas, who mostly use their first names, are known for their climbing skills and make a living mainly by guiding foreign clients in the mountains.
Dawa Futi said that a Pakistani woman, Naila Kiani, who also climbed the peak yesterday, was the first foreign climber to summit Everest in this year’s climbing season, which runs from March to this month.
This could not be independently confirmed as many foreign climbers are headed for the peak, a day after the ropes to the top were fixed.
Kiani, a 37-year-old banker based in Dubai, had climbed four of the world’s 14 highest mountains before Everest, the Himalayan Times newspaper said.
Nepal has issued a record of 467 permits this year for foreign climbers seeking to reach the summit of Everest.
Each climber is usually accompanied by at least one sherpa guide, fueling fears that a narrow section below the summit, known as the Hillary Step, could get crowded.
Everest has been climbed more than 11,000 times since it was first scaled by Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, with about 320 people dying in the effort, according to a Himalayan database and Nepalese officials.
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