Nepali Sherpa ties Mount Everest climbing record

(CNN) — A Nepali sherpa information climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time on Sunday, hiking officers stated, turning into the world’s second person to realize the feat.

Pasang Dawa Sherpa, 46, stood atop the 8,849-m (29,032-ft) peak, sharing the record variety of summits with Kami Rita Sherpa, stated Bigyan Koirala, a authorities tourism official.

Kami Rita, who can also be climbing on Everest now, may set one other record if he makes it to the highest.

Pasang Dawa reached the highest with a Hungarian consumer, stated an official of his employer Imagine Nepal Treks, a hiking firm.

“They are descending from the top now and are in good shape,” the official, Dawa Futi Sherpa, instructed Reuters.

Sherpas, who largely use their first names, are identified for his or her climbing expertise and make a dwelling primarily by guiding international shoppers within the mountains.

Dawa Futi stated a Pakistani girl, Naila Kiani, who additionally climbed the height on Sunday, was the primary international climber to summit Everest on this yr’s climbing season, which runs from March to May.

This couldn’t be independently confirmed as many international climbers at the moment are headed for the height, a day after the ropes to the highest had been fastened.

Kiani, a 37-year-old banker primarily based in Dubai, had climbed 4 of the world’s 14 highest mountains earlier than Everest, the Himalayan Times newspaper stated.

Nepal has issued a record of 467 permits this yr for international climbers looking for to achieve the summit of Everest.

Each climber is often accompanied by no less than one sherpa information, fueling fears {that a} slender part beneath the summit, referred to as the Hillary Step, may get crowded.

Everest has been climbed greater than 11,000 occasions because it was first scaled by Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, with about 320 individuals dying within the effort, in keeping with a Himalayan database and Nepali officers.