Sherpa guide breaks own record scaling Everest for 26th time

Sherpa guide breaks own record scaling Everest for 26th time
Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita (Bikram Rai/AP)

An experienced Nepalese Sherpa guide has scaled Mount Everest for the 26th time, breaking his own record for the most climbs of the world’s highest peak, expedition organisers said.

Kami Rita reached the 8,849-metre (29,032ft) summit on Saturday evening, leading a group of Sherpa climbers who fixed ropes along the route so that hundreds of other climbers and guides can make their way to the top of the mountain later this month.

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