Nepali man scales Everest 21st time, equals all-time record
Forty-seven-year-old Nepalese Sherpa Kami Rita on Saturday became the third person in history to scale the Mount Everest 21 times, Nepal Mountaineering Association President has announced. Rita, who has also climbed other peaks like K2 and Lhotse which are over 8,000 metres high, has equalled Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa's all-time record of 21 summits on the 8,848-metre-high peak.