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Sherpa summits highest peak for 30th time

Trailblazing climber Kami Rita Sherpa reached the top of Mount Qomolangma, also known as Mount Everest, for the 30th time on May 22, breaking his own record for the most summits of the world's highest mountain. Following Kami Rita is another Sherpa — Pasang Dawa — who has 27 summit titles on the world's highest mountain. Paterson and Pastenji "heroically reached the summit of mount Everest", Lakpa Sherpa, managing director of 8K Expeditions, the agency managing Paterson's climb, wrote on his Facebook page on May 24. About 8,800 mountaineers have climbed Mount Qomolangma from the Nepal side since Tenzing Norgay Sherpa and New Zealander Edmund Hillary first set foot atop the world's highest peak in 1953.

China Daily

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