British mountaineer Kenton Cool has scaled Mount Everest for the nineteenth time, breaking his personal report for essentially the most climbs up the world’s tallest mountain for a non-sherpa.
The 51-year-old, who was accompanied by Nepali sherpa Dorji Gyaljen, reached the 8,849m (29,000ft) excessive summit at 11:00 native time (04:15 GMT) on Sunday.
Mr Cool first climbed Everest in 2004 and has summited it nearly yearly since.
Mr Gyaljen logged his twenty third climb up Everest. One other Nepali sherpa, Kami Rita, holds the report for making the most number of Everest summits at 30, and can be at the moment on the mountain making an attempt to set a brand new report.
Mr Cool’s record-setting feat comes after at the least two climbers – Subrata Ghosh from India and Philipp “PJ” Santiago II from the Philippines – died on Mount Everest this week.
After his sixteenth Everest ascent in 2022, Mr Cool appeared to minimize his report, noting that many Nepali climbers have surpassed it.
“I am actually shocked by the curiosity… contemplating that so most of the sherpas have so many extra ascents,” he advised AFP in an interview then.
4 days earlier than the most recent feat, Mr Cool advised his Instagram followers that he “lastly [had] a optimistic forecast” that can permit him to go forward with the try.
“Let’s hope that we handle to string the needle with regard to numbers of climbers and we now have a protected and pleasant time up excessive,” he wrote.
Fellow climbers hailed the achievement.
Mr Cool is a “nice particular person to share tales from 20 years on the mountain”, American adventurer Adrian Ballinger advised Reuters information company.
“His expertise, charisma, and energy make him a worthwhile a part of the Everest group,” says Mr Ballinger, who’s at the moment guiding a crew up Everest.
“Wonderful, Kenton,” wrote Jordanian mountaineer Mostafa Salameh, who’s one in every of solely 20 individuals to climb the very best mountains on all seven continents and conquer the North and South Poles.
Mr Cool can be a mountain information who has led British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, amongst others, on a number of notable climbs together with Everest.
