<PERSON> breaks record as he climbs Mount Everest for the 24th time · Global Voices
<PERSON> holds the record of climbing Everest 24 times, the most by any individual. Image from the Facebook page of Seven Summit Treks Pvt. Ltd. Used with permission.
Climbing Mount Everest is on every adrenaline junkie’s wishlist, but Everest summiteer <PERSON> has checked this off his list a record amount of times. Defying all odds, he climbed the world’s highest peak twice in a week this year – earlier on 15 May and again on 21 May 2019 – making his number of Everest ascents 24.
<PERSON> does it again. Breaking his own record for most summits on Mt Everest the 49-year-old <PERSON> climbed the world’s highest mountain twice in a week– 24 times in total. 849
Time: 6:38 am. Congratulations!! pic.twitter.com/fvJOEeCz73
— <PERSON> (@bhadrarukum) May 21, 2019
Seven Summit Treks, the company he works with, announced on Facebook:
21 May 2019 !
24th Ascents of Mt Everest 8848m by <PERSON>, HUGE CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR SENIOR GUIDE.
This morning 6:30 AM <PERSON> climbed the Mt Everest for 24 times (2nd Ascents of this season) and broke his own record of 23rd Ascents! […]
According to <PERSON>, MD at Seven Summit Treks, this morning at 6:30 AM <PERSON> climbed the highest peak via South Side with A TEAM OF INDIAN POLICE. “Guiding a team of Indian Police Mt Everest Expedition 2019 this morning <PERSON> climbed Mt Everest for 24 times; he made the entire country proud, this is a golden mark in the history of mountaineering?? ” <PERSON> added.
You: I went to the gym twice this week.
<PERSON>: https://t.co/S9FM71AWGh
— <PERSON> (@AnupKaphle) May 21, 2019
Congratulations <PERSON> for 24th sucessful ascent of Mt Everest including double ascents in 7 days from Nepal side !
via https://t.co/f3DnsQmRuI pic.twitter.com/qqqfaXAJjv
— <PERSON> (@surajshakya) May 21, 2019
<PERSON> belongs to the Sherpa ethnic group native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and the Himalayas. Many Sherpas are good mountaineers and experts in their local area and they have long been serving as professional guides to foreign mountaineers who want to brave the extreme altitudes.
<PERSON> hails from Thame village in Nepal’s Solukhumbu District, known for its famous climbers. Thame has produced famous climbers including <PERSON> (aka Super Sherpa) who held the previous record of most Mount Everest summits and <PERSON> who has climbed Everest 10 times without supplemental oxygen that has earned him the sobriquet ‘The Snow Leopard’.
<PERSON> climbed Everest on 13 May 1994 for the first time and has also climbed K2 and Lhotse one time each, Manaslu twice and Cho Oyu eight times, totalling 36 ascents of peaks over 8,000m according to Seven Summit Treks.
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After climbing Everest so many times, <PERSON> has seen the visible effects of climate change on Everest. Speaking to BBC Nepali earlier this year, <PERSON> said:
पहिले १२/१३ वटा भर्याङ चढ्नुपर्थ्यो भने अहिले तीन-चारवटाले पुग्छ। […]
पहिले क्याम्प टूमै कति धेरै हिउँ हुन्थ्यो। अहिले हिमनदी मात्र छ। 849