A British climber and a Nepali guide have broken their own records for most climbs of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, hiking officials said on Sunday. Rakesh Gurung, director of Nepal's Department of Tourism, said Britain's Kenton Cool, 50, and Nepali guide Kami Rita Sherpa, 54, climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the 18th and 29th time, respectively. They were on separate expeditions guiding their clients. FILE PHOTO: Water forms under Nepal's Khumbu glacier as the ice melts in this undated handout image. Alex Treadway/ICIMOD/Handout via REUTERS "He just keeps going and going... amazing guy!" Garrett Madison of the U.S.-based expedition organising company Madison Mountaineering said of the Nepali climber. Madison had teamed up with Kami Rita to climb t...
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Britain’s record holding climber says highest peak is now 'dry, more rocky' Mount Everest is losing snow and turning "dry and rocky", British climber Kenton Cool, who made his 17th ascent of the world’s highest peak this week, the most by a foreigner, said on Saturday. The 49-year-old Cool, who climbed the 8,849-metre (29,032 foot) peak for the first time in 2004, said the giant mountain appears to be drying now. British climber Kenton Cool, 49, waves towards the media personnel, upon his arrival at the airport, as he returns after completing his 17th ascent of Mount Everest, which is the most by any foreign climber, in Kathmandu, Nepal May 19, 2023. REUTERS/Navesh Chitrakar "If you go back to early mid-2000s there used to be a lot of snow," he told Reuters in an interview in ...
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