British Kenton Cool reaches file nineteenth summit

[ad_1] British mountaineer Kenton Cool has scaled Mount Everest for the nineteenth time, breaking his personal file for essentially the most climbs up the world's tallest mountain for a non-sherpa.

The 51-year-old, who was accompanied by Nepali sherpa Dorji Gyaljen, reached the 8,849m (29,000ft) excessive summit at 11:00 native time (04:15 GMT) on Sunday.

Mr Cool first climbed Everest in 2004 and has summited it nearly yearly since.

Mr Gyaljen logged his twenty third climb up Everest. One other Nepali sherpa, Kami Rita, holds the file for making the most number of Everest summits at 30, and can also be at the moment on the mountain trying to set a brand new file.

Mr Cool's record-setting feat comes after at the least two climbers - Subrata Ghosh from India and Philipp "PJ" Santiago II from the Philippines - died on Mount Everest this week.

After his sixteenth Everest ascent in 2022, Mr Cool appeared to minimize his file, noting that many Nepali climbers have surpassed it.

"I am actually stunned by the curiosity... contemplating that so most of the sherpas have so many extra ascents," he instructed AFP in an interview then.

4 days earlier than the newest feat, Mr Cool instructed his Instagram followers that he "lastly [had] a constructive forecast" that may permit him to go forward with the try.

"Let's hope that we handle to string the needle with regard to numbers of climbers and we have now a secure and pleasing time up excessive," he wrote.

Fellow climbers hailed the achievement.

Mr Cool is a "nice individual to share tales from twenty years on the mountain", American adventurer Adrian Ballinger instructed Reuters information company.

"His expertise, charisma, and power make him a beneficial a part of the Everest neighborhood," says Mr Ballinger, who's at the moment guiding a staff up Everest.

"Wonderful, Kenton," wrote Jordanian mountaineer Mostafa Salameh, who's one in all solely 20 folks to finish the climb the best mountains on all seven continents and conquer the North and South Poles.

Mr Cool can also be a mountain information who has lead British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, amongst others, on a number of notable climbs together with Everest.