Nepal mountaineer Kami Rita climbs Everest twice in a week for record 24th
Returning last week to a colourful welcome at base camp after his 23rd climb, Sherpa had already said that he wanted to go up for a second time this season.
Returning last week to a colourful welcome at base camp after his 23rd climb, Sherpa had already said that he wanted to go up for a second time this season.
Not that the man who earns his living guiding climbers up the mountains has an obsession with records ~ until recently he did not know he “held” the world record ~ for like all true professionals he believed he was merely doing his job to the best of his ability.
Last year he ascended Everest for the 22nd time, breaking the previous record of 21 summits he shared with two other Sherpa climbers.
A 47-year-old Nepalese Sherpa on Saturday scripted history by becoming the third climber to scale Mount Everest for a record…