{"id":190496,"date":"2022-05-09T00:09:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-08T18:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=190496"},"modified":"2022-05-09T00:09:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-08T18:39:43","slug":"52-yr-old-nepali-sherpa-scales-mt-everest-for-26th-time-breaks-own-record-of-most-climbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/09\/52-yr-old-nepali-sherpa-scales-mt-everest-for-26th-time-breaks-own-record-of-most-climbs\/","title":{"rendered":"52-yr-old Nepali Sherpa scales Mt Everest for 26th time; breaks own record of most climbs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\nKathmandu, May 8 (PTI) A 52-year-old Nepali Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time, bettering his own record for most number of times to scale the world&#8217;s highest peak, expedition planners said on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kami Rita and his group of 11 Sherpa guides summitted the 8,848.86-metre peak at 6.55 pm (local time), said Dawa Sherpa, manager of Seven Summit Treks Pvt Ltd.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Sherpas made the expedition to fix ropes along the trekking route, to help climbers ahead of the peak climbing season starting May.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The group climbed through the traditional southeast ridge route which was pioneered by New Zealand&#8217;s Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This year the Department of Tourism, Nepal has issued permits to 316 individuals to climb the peak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Rita scaled Mt Everest for the first time on May 13, 1994. Besides Mt Everest, Rita has also scaled Mt Godwin-Austen (K2), Mt Lhotse, Mt Manaslu and Mt Cho Oyu.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also holds the record for most climbs over 8000 metres.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Till date, Everest has been climbed 10,657 times, many have climbed the peak multiple times. Over 300 people have died trying to scale the peak.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, May 8 (PTI) A 52-year-old Nepali Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest for the 26th time, bettering his own record for most number of times to scale the world&#8217;s highest peak, expedition planners said on Sunday. Kami Rita and his group of 11 Sherpa guides summitted the 8,848.86-metre peak at 6.55 pm (local time), said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-190496","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}