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Sherpa鈥檚 record

Sherpa climber Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest yesterday for a 23rd time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents of the world鈥檚 highest peak. Rita, 49, reached the summit with other climbers yesterday morning, said Gyanendra Shrestha, a Nepalese government official at the mountain鈥檚 base camp. His two closest peers have climbed the 8,850-meter peak 21 times each but both of them have retired.


 

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