The well-known Nepalese mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa has climbed Mount Everest for a record 30th time.
The 54-year-old reached the summit of the world's highest mountain at 8,848 metres on Wednesday, a Nepalese official currently staying at the Everest base camp told dpa.
Kami Rita Sherpa had accompanied a group as a mountain guide, said the head of his expedition company Seven Summit Treks, Mingma Sherpa. The last time the record holder had climbed the mountain was a little over a week ago.
Kami Rita Sherpa first conquered Mount Everest in 1994 and, according to the Guinness Book of Records, has repeated this almost every year since then as part of his work. He also scaled several other 8,000-metre mountains in the Himalayas.
Sherpas are an ethnic group from the region whose members often work as guides and porters for mountaineers from abroad. Kami Rita Sherpa himself was first a porter and later a mountain guide.
Everest's peak season is from April to June, since this is the best weather window for climbing the mountain on the border between Nepal and Chinese-administered Tibet.
It can be climbed from both countries, but ascents from Nepal are more common. There, the authorization required to climb the mountain costs less - a total of $11,000 dollars. According to the Nepalese tourism authority, 419 mountaineers received this permit in the spring season.