Nepalese climber Kami Rita reached the summit of Everest for the 31st time yesterday, Tuesday, breaking his own record for climbing the world’s highest mountain, the company that organized his expedition announced.

“Congratulations to the legendary Kami Rita on his 31st successful ascent of Everest, the highest number of climbs in history,” Seven Summit Treks.
said in a statement.

A mountain guide for more than 20 years, Cammy Rita, now aged 55, first climbed the “Summit of the World” at 8,849 metres in 1994. It was then on a commercial expedition.

Since then, she has climbed to the top of Everest almost every year, guiding clients.

“We no longer need to introduce Cami Rita,” the company that organized his expedition said yesterday. “He is not only a national mountaineering hero, but a global symbol of Everest itself.”

In 2024, the Nepalese climber twice climbed to the summit of Everest, breaking a new record each time.

“I’m happy about this record, but records are broken in the end,” he told Agence France-Presse on May 12, 2024, after reaching the summit of Everest for the 29th time.

Nicknamed “Mr Everest”, Kami Rita was born in 1970 in Thame, a Himalayan village where many experienced climbers come from. He grew up in the Himalayan valley watching his father and then his brother go off on expeditions as mountain guides (sherpas) before following in their footsteps himself.

In 2019, he climbed the summit of Everest twice in six days.

Mount Everest was first officially conquered on 29 May 1953 by New Zealand Sherpa Edmund Hilary and Nepalese Sherpa Tenzing Norkai, and since then more than 8,000 people have climbed it. Last year, more than 800 climbers reached the summit, 74 of them from the northern side of Tibet.