Kathmandu: Pasang Dawa Sherpa scaled Mount Everest for the 27th time on Monday, equaling the world record previously set by Kami Rita Sherpa for the most number of summits. Dawa Gyaljen Sherpa, executive director of Imagine Nepal Treks, which organized the mountaineering expedition, told PTI that the 46-year-old climber was standing on the Mount Everest summit at 8.25 am on Monday. Pasang has become the second person in the world to climb the 8,848.86 meter high mountain peak 27 times.
Born in Pangbose near the Everest region, Pasang first completed the summit of Everest in 1998. Pasang Dawa has climbed the world’s highest mountain peak twice this spring. Earlier, on May 14, he had completed the climb of Mount Everest for the 26th time. According to Thaneshwar Guragen of ‘Seven Summit Track’, Kami Rita Sherpa, who has made a world record by climbing Everest 27 times in the past, is also preparing to climb this mountain peak for the 28th time.
Kami is waiting for a favorable time to scale Everest for the second time this season, so that he can break his own and Pasang Dawa’s record and set another world record. Earlier, 53-year-old Kami reached the summit of Everest for the 27th time on May 17. Two experienced Sherpa climbers are competing against each other to set the world record for climbing the summit.
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