Two Nepali Sherpa climbers break their record on Mount Everest | Mount Everest News

Kami Rita Sherpa breaks his record with 32 ascents while Lhakpa Sherpa breaks his female record with 11 summits of Mount Everest.

Two prominent Nepali leaders stepped up Mount Everest and someone called “Everest Man” is breaking his record it was launched last year with 32 ascents and the other, who is known as the “Queen of the Mountain”, breaks her female record with the 11th summit.

“This is another milestone in the history of mountaineering in Nepal,” Himal Gautam, a spokesman for Nepal’s tourism department, told AFP reporters on Sunday.

Kami Rita Sherpa, 56, first stood on top of the world’s highest mountain in 1994 while doing commercial research. Since then, he has continued to lead clients up Mount Everest almost every year, achieving the title twice in some years.

Lhakpa Sherpa, 52, first stood on top of Everest in 2000, becoming the first Nepalese woman to successfully scale and descend the Himalayan peak.

“Their writings give great joy to other riders,” said Gautam. “Breaking records through good competition on Everest will help ensure a safe, dignified and well-managed climb.”

In 2024, after another ascent of the 8,849-meter (29,032ft) peak, Kami Rita said he was “working” and did not plan to set a record.

Kami Rita was born in the same village of Thame in Solukhumbu district as Tenzing Norgay, who with Edmund Hillary was the first to climb Everest in 1953.

Since then, mountaineering has made mountaineering a profitable career.

Nepal has issued 492 Everest permits this year during the March-May climbing season. More than 8,000 people have climbed the mountain since Hillary and Norgay’s trip, many of them more than once.

Among non-Sherpa climbers, the record is held by British mountaineer Kenton Cool, who has climbed 19 times, followed by American climbers Dave Hahn and Garrett Madison who have climbed 15 times each. Cool and Madison are currently on Everest to improve their reputation.

A growing number of climbers with their Sherpa guides expected to attend the summit in the next few days has revived concerns about overcrowding on the mountain, especially if bad weather shortens the climbing window.