Mount Everest
\nBoth climbers, who were on separate expeditions, used Southeast Ridge route to the summit
\nKATHMANDU
\nA British climber and a Nepali guide have broken their own records for most climbs of Mount Everest, the world\u2019s highest mountain, hiking officials said on Sunday.
\nRakesh Gurung, director of Nepal\u2019s Department of Tourism, said Britain\u2019s Kenton Cool, 50, and Nepali guide Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the 18th and 29th time, respectively.
\nThey were on separate expeditions guiding their clients.
\n\u201cHe just keeps going and going… amazing guy!\u201d Garrett Madison of the US-based expedition organising company Madison Mountaineering said of the Nepali climber. Madison had teamed up with Kami Rita to climb the summits of Everest, Lhotse, and K2 in 2014.
\nK2, located in Pakistan, is the world\u2019s second-highest mountain and Lhotse in Nepal is the fourth-tallest.
\nLukas Furtenbach of the Austrian expedition operator Furtenbach Adventures called Cool\u2019s feat remarkable.
\n\u201cHe is a fundamental part of the Everest guiding industry. Kenton Cool is an institution,\u201d Furtenbach, who is leading an expedition from the Chinese side of Everest, told Reuters.
\nBoth climbers used the Southeast Ridge route to the summit.
\nPioneered by the first summiteers, New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953, the route remains the most popular path to the Everest summit.
\nKami Rita first climbed Everest in 1994 and has done so almost every year since, except for three years when authorities closed the mountain for various reasons.
\nHe climbed the mountain twice last year.
\nMountain climbing is a major tourism activity and a source of income as well as employment for Nepal, home to eight of the world\u2019s 14 tallest peaks, including Everest.
\nNepal has issued 414 permits, each costing $11,000 to climbers for the climbing season that ends this month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Mount Everest Both climbers, who were on separate expeditions, used Southeast Ridge route to the summit KATHMANDU A British climber and a Nepali guide have broken their own records for most climbs of Mount Everest, the world\u2019s highest mountain, hiking officials said on Sunday. Rakesh Gurung, director of Nepal\u2019s Department of Tourism, said Britain\u2019s Kenton […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":406826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"yoast_head":"\n