While Western mountaineers used guides for expeditions from the 1920s, it wasn't until Edmund Hillary and sherpa Tenzing Norgay successfully summited Mount Everest in 1953 that the role of the ...

A Nepalese Sherpa broke his own record for climbing up the world's highest peak, reaching the summit of Mount Everest for an unprecedented 26th time, officials said on Saturday. Kami Rita reached ...

This week nine Sherpas became the first to climb Mt. Everest since a deadly avalanche in 2014 and an earthquake last year. The guides hope more climbers return to the slopes.

Lhakpa Sherpa has summited Mount Everest a record-setting 10 times. But relatively few people know her most harrowing moments weren't on the mountain.

Kami Rita, a 53-year-old Nepalese Sherpa guide who set the record for the most Mount Everest ascents with 28, said he’s not planning to retire anytime soon.

A Sherpa climber who has scaled to the summit of Mount Everest nearly two dozen times broke his own record for most successful ascents of the world’s highest peak.

Lhapka Sherpa, a Nepali Sherpa mountain guide, stands near Mount Everest Base Camp in Nepal, May 3, 2022, in a photo she posted on her Facebook page nine days before she climbed to the summit of ...

Famed Sherpa guide will attempt to climb Mt. Everest for a 31st time, breaking his own record April 20, 2025 Mount Everest’s highest camp is littered with frozen garbage, and cleanup is likely ...

A Sherpa guide scaled Mount Everest for a record 25th time on Friday, breaking the previous record, which he had also set. Kami Rita and 11 other Sherpas summited the mountain at around 6 p.m., a ...

Sherpa climber Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday for a 23rd time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents of the world’s highest peak. Rita reached the summit with ...