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A British upland usher has scaled Mount Everest Sunday for the 19th time, breaking his ain grounds for the astir ascents of the world's highest upland by a non-Sherpa guide.
Kenton Cool, 51, from southwest England, scaled the 29,032-foot highest connected Sunday on with respective different climbers. He was doing good and connected his mode down from the summit, said Iswari Paudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal, which equipped his expedition.
Cool archetypal climbed Mount Everest successful 2004 and has been doing it astir each twelvemonth since then.
British mountaineer Kenton Cool successful 2023 aft scaling Mount Everest for a 17th time.
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He was incapable to ascent Everest successful 2014 due to the fact that the play was canceled aft 16 Sherpa guides were killed successful an avalanche, and again successful 2015 erstwhile an earthquake triggered an avalanche that killed 19 people. The 2020 climbing play was canceled due to the fact that of the coronavirus pandemic.
Hundreds of climbers and their guides are connected the upland during the fashionable outpouring climbing season, hoping to standard the world's highest peak.
Many of them person already succeeded portion much are expected to marque their effort earlier the climbing play closes astatine the extremity of this month, erstwhile upwind information deteriorates with the coming of the rainy monsoon season, making climbing difficult.
Only Nepali Sherpa guides person scaled the highest much times than Cool.
The highest fig of climbs of Mount Everest is 30 times by Nepali Sherpa usher Kami Rita, who is besides connected the upland presently and is expected to marque the ascent successful the adjacent fewer days.
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