Sherpa sets new record with 27th Mount Everest summit

Nepali sherpa Kami Rita Sherpa has set a new record by scaling Mount Everest for the 27th time, beating his own previous record. He climbed the 8,849-metre mountain early on Wednesday morning, guiding a foreign climber. Kami Rita has climbed Everest almost every year since 1994, except in 2014, 2015 and 2020. Nepal has issued a record 478 permits for people to climb Everest this year, and the country has been criticised for allowing too many climbers, many of them inexperienced, to try for the summit.