A British mountain guide returned to Nepal's capital after scaling Mount Everest for a 17th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the mountain by a non-Sherpa guide.
British mountaineer Kenton Cool who successfully completed his 17th summit of Mount Everest arrives at the airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, Friday, May 19, 2023. The British mountain guide who just set a record for the highest number of Mount Everest summit among non-Nepali climbers returned from the mountain Friday said it was his coldest climb on the world's highest mountain.
Only Nepali Sherpa guides have scaled the peak more times than Cool. Veteran Sherpa guide Kami Rita climbed the mountain this week for a record 27th time. Another Sherpa guide, Pasang Dawa, has scaled it 26 times. Both Kami Rita and Pasang Dawa are still on the 8,849-meter mountain with their climbing groups and there is a chance they could reach the summit again before the spring climbing season finishes at the end of this month.
Hundreds of climbers and their local guides are currently on Everest and a rush for the summit is expected in the next few weeks. Nepalese authorities issued about 470 permits to climb Everest this season.Cool was unable to climb Everest in 2014 because the season was canceled after 16 Sherpa guides were killed in an avalanche, and again in 2015 when an
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