Kami Rita of Nepal climbs Mount Everest for record 29th times
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Kami Rita of Nepal has broken his own world record by climbing Mount Everest 29 times. This is the 29th time in the last 30 years that he has climbed the world's highest mountain.
According to the Mingma Sherpa of the Seven Summits Treks, Kami Rita reached the peak on 12 May 2004.
Mount Everest is the world’s highest peak, with a height of 8,848.86 metres or 29,031.69 feet.
Legendary Mountaineer Kami Rita
Kami Rita is a citizen of Nepal and was born in1970. He is currently a senior mountain sherpa (guide) with Seven Summit Treks.
Kami Rita started his mountaineering career in 1992 as a supporting crew member.
Kami Rita first conquered the Everest peak in 1994 and has been climbing the mountain peak almost every year. In 2023, he climbed the mountain peak twice.
He is popularly known as the Everest Man.
Another Nepalese Mountaineer, Pasang Dawa, is Kami Rita's closest competitor, who has climbed Mount Everest 27 times.
About Mount Everest
Mount Everest is the world’s highest mountain peak, situated in the Great Himalayas region of the Himalayas. It lies on the boundary of Nepal and Tibet.
In Tibet, Mount Everest is known as Chomolungma which means“Goddess Mother of the World” or “Goddess of the Valley". It is known as Sagarmatha in Nepal.
In 1852, the Surveyor of India, under the leadership of Sir George Everest, accurately measured the height of the peak. The mountain peak was named as Peak XV and it was renamed Mount Everest in 1865 in honour of Sir George Everest.
Mount Everest was formed after the collision of the Indian and Eurasian plates 40 to 50 million years ago. Due to the continuing tectonic movement of the plates, the Himalayan mountain moves a few inches to the northeast and rises a fraction of an inch each year. Thus, the height of Everest is increasing.
The present height of Mount Everest is estimated to be 8,848.86 metres or 29,031.69 feet.
Indian Climbers on Mount Everest
- On 29 May 1953, New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary became the first person in the world to climb Mount Everest. He was accompanied by Nepali-Indian Sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
- The Government of India established the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award in his memory in 1994.
- The first woman to climb Mount Everest was Junko Tabei of Japan. She climbed the peak on 16 May 1975.
- The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest was Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984.
- The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice - Santosh Yadav in 1992 and 1993.
- The first amputee in the world to climb Mount Everest - Arunima Sinha in 2013
- The youngest girl in the world to climb Mount Everest -Malvanath Poorna in 2014. She was 13 years and 11 months old.
- The oldest woman in the world to climb Mount Everest - Sangeetha Sindhi Bahi, in 2018 at the age of 53 years.
