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Age: 53 Years
Hometown: Namche VDC, Solu-Khumbu Region
Wife: Lakpa Jangmu
Some Lesser Known Facts About Kami Rita Sherpa
- Kami Rita is a Nepali mountain climber who has made many information in mountaineering, notably a world document 28 climbs to the summit of the World’s highest mountain, Mount Everest.
- While learning on the Thame Dechen Chokhorling monastery, he contemplated turning into a monk, however ultimately left the Monastery college and entered the sector of native tourism.
- He commenced his mountaineering journey as a porter, aiding climbers by transporting provides and tools up the slopes. Over time, he honed his mountaineering experience and ascended to change into a climbing information.
- According to at least one supply, he started ferrying items to the Everest Base Camp on the age of twelve. As per his brother Lhakpa Rita, his preliminary job was in 1992, aiding a prepare dinner on the Everest Base Camp.
- On 13 May 1994, he summited Mount Everest for the primary time by way of S Col – SE Ridge. Subsequently, he additionally conquered it from N Col – NE Ridge. In 2017, he joined the ranks of Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa because the third individual to succeed in the Everest summit 21 instances. On 16 May 2018, he achieved a historic milestone as the primary particular person to succeed in the Everest summit 22 instances. On 14 May 2023, one other information, Pasang Dawa, matched Kami Rita’s document of 26 Everest summits.
- On 17 May 2023, Kami Rita achieved his twenty seventh Everest summit, setting a outstanding document. Then, on 23 May 2023, he surpassed his personal achievement by conquering Everest for an unprecedented twenty eighth time, turning into the climber with the utmost variety of Everest summits.
- He holds the document for essentially the most climbs over 8000 meters, scaling Cho-Oyu eight instances in 2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014, and 2016, Lhotse as soon as in 2011, and K2 as soon as in 2014.
- Kami Rita’s climbing achievements lengthen past Everest, as he has additionally conquered peaks like Baruntse, Ama Dablam, Manaslu, Annapurna IV, and Mount Elbrus.
- After his tenure at Alpine Ascents International, he joined Seven Summit Treks in May 2018. In the identical 12 months, he was appointed because the model ambassador for a Nepalese cement firm, endorsing their product Brij Super Premium OPC. In August 2019, he took on the roles of Brand Ambassador and Chief Adventure Consultant for Himalayan Glacier Adventure and Travel Company.
- In interviews, he has incessantly criticized the Nepalese authorities for not offering sufficient help to Sherpas. In one interview, he stated,
Our authorities hasn’t completed a lot for us. We are well-known world wide. Many foreigners know us, however our authorities doesn’t care about us.”
- In an interview, he revealed that he wears a small Buddhist locket round his neck containing prayers and chants by Lama (Rinpoche).
- His title, Kami Rita, holds a singular story. In accordance along with his traditions, youngsters are named on their day of beginning. Due to the lack of his elder brother, he was named Kami, that means Blacksmith, to appease the Gods. Rita, symbolizing the passing of his elder brother, was additionally included into his title.
- In an interview, he expressed his willpower to by no means retire from mountaineering, vowing to proceed scaling peaks till his physique permits.
- He has authored a concise autobiographical e book titled ‘How to Climb Everest.’