Kathmandu, Nepal – A British mountain information has scaled Mount Everest Sunday for the nineteenth time breaking his personal file for essentially the most ascents of the world’s highest mountain by a non-Sherpa information.
Kenton Cool, 51, from southwest England, scaled the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak on Sunday together with a number of different climbers and he was doing effectively and on manner down from the summit, mentioned Iswari Paudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal, which outfitted his expedition.
Cool first climbed Mount Everest in 2004 and has been doing it nearly yearly since then.
He was unable to climb Everest in 2014 as a result of the season was canceled after 16 Sherpa guides had been killed in an avalanche, and once more in 2015 when an earthquake triggered an avalanche that killed 19 folks. The 2020 climbing season was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic.
A whole lot of climbers and their guides are on the mountain through the fashionable spring climbing season, hoping to scale the world’s highest peak.
A lot of them have already succeeded whereas extra are anticipated to make their try earlier than the climbing season closes on the finish of this month when climate situation deteriorates with the approaching of the wet monsoon season making climbing tough.
Solely Nepali Sherpa guides have scaled the height extra instances than Cool.
The best variety of climbs of Mount Everest is 30 instances by Nepali Sherpa information Kami Rita, who can be on the mountain presently and anticipated to make the climb within the subsequent few days.
