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Sajid Sadpara summits world’s 5th highest mountain Makalu without supplemental oxygen
Mount Makalu in Nepal marks the 10th summit of his mission to summit all 14 “eight-thousanders” in the world sans supplementary oxygen.
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Nepali Sherpa scales Mount Everest for a record 32nd time
- More than 8,000 people have climbed Mount Everest, many of them several times, since it was first scaled by Norgay and Hillary
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By Reuters
KATHMANDU: A renowned Nepali Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for the 32nd time on Sunday, an official said, smashing his own record set last year.
Kami Rita Sherpa, 56, reached the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak - the highest in the world - while guiding clients from the 14 Peaks Expedition company.
Nepal’s Department of Tourism congratulated the Sherpa for achieving the “historic milestone” and for his contributions to promoting mountain tourism.
He reached the summit at 10:12 a.m. (0427 GMT) on Sunday, it said in a statement adding that a Sherpa woman, Lakhpa, 52, had made her 11th ascent to the peak, the most by a woman. Details of the climbs were not available.
Kami Rita was born in the same Thame village in Solukhumbu district as Tenzing Norgay. Norgay and New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary were the first to climb Everest in 1953.
Kami Rita climbed the peak for the first time in 1994 and has repeated the feat every year except in 2014, 2015 and 2020 when expeditions to Everest were closed for different reasons. He reached the summit twice in some years.
More than 8,000 people have climbed Mount Everest, many of them several times, since it was first scaled by Norgay and Hillary.
Among non-Sherpa climbers, the record is held by British guide Kenton Cool who has accomplished the feat 19 times followed by American climbers Dave Hahn and Garrett Madison with 15 climbs each. Cool and Madison are currently on Everest to improve their records.
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Miracle on Everest: Guide believed dead spotted crawling down ice
Kamal Pariyar
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Dawa Sherpa vanished on Mount Everest last week and was feared to have died
A Nepali climbing guide thought to have died on Mount Everest has been found crawling down to Base Camp, six days after he was last seen alive.
Dawa Sherpa was last seen above Camp 3, at around 7,500m (24,600ft), while coming down the mountain after summiting.
Hopes for his survival were slim as the air at that altitude is thin - but on Thursday, a cleaning crew spotted the experienced climber, who had frostbite on his hands but appeared to be in good health, sliding slowly down.
"Dawa managed to survive against all odds for days. It's nothing short of a miracle," said Pemba Sherpa, executive director of 8K Expeditions which was overseeing search efforts. "This is a true self-rescue."
Five people have died so far in this year's climbing, three of them Nepalis who were involved in the Everest preparations, according to news agency AFP.
More than 1,000 reached the Everest summit this season, making it the busiest on record.
Dawa Sherpa - also known as Hillary Dawa Sherpa after famed mountaineer Edmund Hillary - was "slowly sliding through" the Khumbu Icefall toward Base Camp when he was found, Pemba Sherpa said.
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Dawa Sherpa (L), who was feared dead after going missing on Everest last week, has been found
"As far as I know, no one has survived alone at that altitude on Everest so far. This is a miracle to have survived for six days alone and descended safe. I think he must have lived inside the tents to keep himself safe," said Pemba Sherpa.
Dawa Sherpa is "awake and undergoing treatment", according to Nishant Dhakal, a doctor in the intensive care unit of Kathmandu's HAMS Hospital.
"He recognised me … is good and speaks," his daughter Mhendo Lhamo Sherpa told Reuters news agency after visiting him. "We are happy."
