{"id":52500,"date":"2024-05-22T17:43:40","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T07:43:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=52500"},"modified":"2024-05-22T17:43:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-22T07:43:40","slug":"nepali-reaches-summit-of-everest-for-record-30th-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=52500","title":{"rendered":"Nepali reaches summit of Everest for record 30th time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa broke his own record Wednesday as the person to have scaled Mount Everest the most times, achieving the milestone 30th ascent of the world&#8217;s highest peak.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The veteran 54-year-old guide had reached the summit for the record 29th time earlier this month, before climbing to the icy top again early on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Kami Rita reached the summit this morning. Now he has made a new record with 30 summits of Everest,&#8221; Mingma Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks, his expedition organiser, told AFP.<\/p>\n<p>A guide for more than two decades, Sherpa, also known as &#8220;Everest Man&#8221;, first stood the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) peak in 1994 when working for a commercial expedition. Since then he has climbed Everest almost every year, guiding clients.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am glad for the record, but records are eventually broken,&#8221; Kami Rita told AFP after his 29th climb on May 12.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepali climber Kami Rita Sherpa broke his own record Wednesday as the person to have scaled Mount Everest the most times, achieving the milestone 30th ascent of the world&#8217;s highest peak. The veteran 54-year-old guide had reached the summit for the record 29th time earlier this month, before climbing to the icy top again early [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52501,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1551],"class_list":["post-52500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-nepali-reaches-summit-of-everest-for-record-30th-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52500\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}