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Kami Rita has been scaling the world\u2019s tallest mountain since 1994. He reaches the summit nearly every year\u2014and sometimes twice in the same year<\/h2>\n
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As a mountain guide, Kami Rita is following in the footsteps of his father. But he says he doesn’t see much of a future in the industry for his son, as climate change makes the job more dangerous.
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In the early hours of May 27, a Nepali Sherpa guide summited Mount Everest for the 31st time.<\/p>\n

Kami Rita<\/a>, who goes by his first name, reached the top of the 29,032-foot-tall peak at around 4 a.m., breaking the record\u00a0he set last year<\/a>. The 55-year-old guide, who works for Seven Summit Treks, made the journey while leading a group of 22 mountaineers from the Indian army, along with 27 other Sherpas, per Reuters<\/a>\u2019 Gopal Sharma.<\/p>\n

He had attempted to summit several days earlier, but he had to turn back because of bad weather, reports Binaj Gurubacharya of the\u00a0Associated Press<\/a>. Unpredictable weather patterns have been a major hurdle for mountaineers attempting to summit Everest this month, according to the\u00a0Kathmandu Post<\/em><\/a>\u2019s Sangam Prasain.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m proud of this achievement,\u201d Kami Rita tells the\u00a0New York Times<\/em><\/a>\u2019 Bhadra Sharma and Jonathan Wolfe. \u201cThis climb was a bit difficult because of harsh weather conditions. In my experience, over the last two or three years, climbing the mountain has become more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Kami Rita first summited Everest in 1994, when he was 24 years old. He\u2019s climbed the towering mountain nearly every year since then\u2014at least once, sometimes twice, per NPR<\/a>\u2019s Bill Chappell. Over the past three decades, he has only missed a handful of years because Everest was closed for various reasons, including\u00a0during the Covid-19 pandemic<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Kami Rita has also conquered several other towering peaks, including K2, Cho Oyu, Manaslu and Lhotse.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe is not just a national climbing hero, but a global symbol of Everest itself,\u201d writes Seven Summit Treks in a social media post<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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As a mountain guide, Kami Rita is following in the footsteps of his father, who was one of the first Sherpa guides, according to the AP. But he tells the Times<\/em> that he doesn\u2019t see much of a future for the industry. Climate change is causing snow to melt more quickly than in the past, which has made mountaineering more dangerous, he says.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not asking my son to work as a mountain guide,\u201d he tells the Times<\/em>. \u201cSons or grandsons of other Sherpa families are also not joining the profession. \u2026 We have faced greater risks over time, and we don\u2019t want to bring our children into this career.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kami Rita\u2019s closest competitor is Pasang Dawa, a fellow Sherpa guide who has summited Everest\u00a029 times<\/a>. The record for non-Sherpa mountaineers is held by Kenton Cool, a British guide who has reached the top\u00a019 times<\/a>. He is followed by American climbers Dave Hahn and Garrett Madison, who have each scaled the peak 15 times.<\/p>\n

New Zealand climber Edmund Hillary and Nepali-Indian mountaineer Tenzing Norgay made the\u00a0first recorded summit<\/a> of Everest\u2014the world\u2019s tallest mountain\u2014on May 29, 1953. Since then, more than 7,000 climbers have reached the top for more than 12,800 total recorded summits, according to\u00a0Alan Arnette<\/a>, a mountaineer and climbing coach who runs a blog about Everest. This week, on the 72nd anniversary of Hillary and Norgay\u2019s summit, Nepal\u2019s mountaineering community\u00a0gathered in Kathmandu<\/a> to celebrate International Everest Day.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s spring Everest climbing season is starting to wind down. Nepal issued 468 climbing permits for the mountain, with more than 300 climbers and Sherpa successfully reaching the summit in March, April and May, reports Reuters. At least four people have died while attempting to summit Everest this spring, per\u00a0Outside<\/em> magazine<\/a>\u2019s Ben Ayers.<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, a group of four British men made headlines when they summited Everest in just five days\u2014a fraction of the normal time\u2014with\u00a0help from xenon gas<\/a>. Use of the gas is controversial in the mountaineering world, with some critics arguing that it\u2019s a shortcut.<\/p>\n

Asked for his thoughts on xenon gas, Kami Rita tells the Times<\/em> that it\u2019s \u201cquite new for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will take at least a few years to research this gas,\u201d he adds. \u201cOnly then can we understand its impact on climbing.\u201d<\/p>\n

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