Veteran Sherpa climber Kami Rita is getting ready for a record-breaking ascent of Mount Everest.
The 55-year-old, thought of one of many world’s biggest mountain guides, goals to summit the world’s highest peak for an unprecedented thirty first time – and probably a thirty second – this spring climbing season.
Rita departed Kathmandu on Sunday to guide a climbing expedition to the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit.
“I’m mentally, emotionally and bodily ready to climb the mountain,” Kami Rita instructed The Related Press at Kathmandu‘s airport. “I’m in my high bodily situation proper now.”
He holds the file for essentially the most profitable ascents of Mount Everest at 30 instances. In Could final yr, he climbed the height twice.
“My first precedence is to get my shopper to the summit of the height. Then I’ll determine on whether or not I’ll climb the height a couple of time throughout the season. It is determined by the climate and situations on the mountain,” he mentioned.
His closest competitor for essentially the most climbs of Mount Everest is fellow Sherpa information Pasang Dawa, who has made 27 profitable ascents of the mountain.
Kami Rita first climbed Everest in 1994 and has been making the journey almost yearly since. He’s one in every of many Sherpa guides whose experience and expertise are important to the protection and success annually of international climbers aspiring to face on high of the mountain.
His father was among the many first Sherpa mountain guides. Along with his Everest climbs, Kami Rita has scaled a number of different peaks which are among the many world’s highest, together with K2, Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Lhotse.
In response to Nepal‘s Division of Tourism, 214 climbers have been issued permits to aim Mount Everest from the Nepali aspect of the height within the south this climbing season, which ends in Could. Most climbing of Everest and close by Himalayan peaks is completed in April and Could, when climate situations are most beneficial.
Everest was first climbed in 1953 by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
