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This Guy Has Climbed Mount Everest — 27 Times

A Nepalese runs with his national flag during a marathon to mark the first conquest of Mount Everest, at Lobuche, near Everest base camp, Nepal, Monday, May 29, 2017. Nepal's mountaineering community is celebrating the first conquest of Everest and a successful climbing season in which hundreds of climbers scaled the world's highest peak. Monday is the 64th anniversary of the first successful climb of Everest by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and his Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay. (AP Photo/Tashi Sherpa)
  • Climbing Mount Everest is a major feat.
  • But Nepalese climber Kami Rita Sherpa has reached the top of Mount Everest for the 27th time, reclaiming the record for the most summits of the world’s highest mountain.
  • Kami Rita, 53, scaled the 29,032-foot mountain early in the morning on Wednesday, along the traditional southeast ridge route, guiding a Vietnamese climber.

 

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