04/05/2026
Kami Rita Sherpa, a Legendary Sherpa, was born on 17th January, 1970 in Thame Village, Solu Khumbu Region of Nepal. Thame is also the village of Legendary Tenzing Norgay. He has reached the summit of Mt.Everest 30 times.
Kami Rita has been a guide for more than two decades now who had first summited Everest in 1994 during a commercial expedition. During these 29 years, he has scaled five 8,000-metre peaks, summiting them 44 times.
He has also scaled the world’s second-highest mountain, K-2, in Pakistan. Kami Rita Sherpa is a Nepali Sherpa guide who, since May 2023 has held the record for most ascents to the summit of Mount Everest. He scaled the mountain for 30th time (twice) in May 2023, eclipsing his record set on 17th May, 2023. His father was among the first professional Sherpa guides after Everest was opened to foreign mountaineers in 1950. His brother, Lakpa Rita Sherpa, also a guide, scaled Everest 17 times.“I can climb for a few more years,” said Kami Rita Sherpa some time ago in a BBC interview. “I am healthy. I can go until I am 60 years old. With oxygen it’s no big deal, we were born in the Himalayas.” Once Kami Rita told the BBC. “I never thought about making records. I actually didn’t know that you could make a record. Had I known, I would have done a lot more summits earlier.”
Kami Rita has retained his humility towards Mount Everest. For the Sherpas, Chomolungma, as they call it, is a sacred mountain on which a goddess lives. “Months before I begin an ascent, I start worshiping and asking for her forgiveness because I have to put my feet on her body. Right before the final steps to the summit, others run to take photos but I bow my head again and ask for her forgiveness,” says Kami Rita Sherpa. “No matter how strong you are, how good you prepare, you have to be blessed by God to reach the top. In addition to his Everest completions, his total includes Cho-Oyu eight times, three times on Manaslu, and both Lhotse and K2 once each.
Watch out for his ascents on Everest
1994 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 13th May, via SE Ridge
1995 - Had to abandon summit push at 8500 M 1997 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 25th May,1997 through SE Ridge
1998 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 25th May, 1998 through SE Ridge
1999 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 13th May, 1999 through SE Ridge
2000 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 23rd May, 2000 through SE Ridge
2002 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest via S Col - SE Ridge
2003 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 30th May, 2003 through SE Ridge
2004 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 24th May, 2004 through SE Ridge
2005 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 30th May, 2005 through SE Ridge
2006 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 20th May, 2006 through SE Ridge
2007 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 22nd May, 2007 through SE Ridge
2008 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 24th May, 2008 through SE Ridge
2009 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 23rd May, 2009 through SE Ridge
2010 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 5th May, 2010 through SE Ridge
2012 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 18th May, 2012 through SE Ridge
2013 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 22nd May, 2013 through SE Ridge
2015 - All expeditions were called-off due to Earthquake
2016 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 20th May, 2016 through NE Ridge
2017 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 27th May, 2017 through SE Ridge
2018 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 16th May, 2018 through SE Ridge
2019 - Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on 15th May, 2019 through SE Ridge
2019 : Successfully reached the summit of Everest for second time
2021 : Successfully reached the summit of Everest through SE Ridge(25 times in totality) within a week of Mt.Everest on 21st May, 2019
2022 : 26th Summit of Everest through SE Ridge
2023 : 17th May, 2023 - 27th Summit of Everest through SE Ridge
2023 : 23rd May, 2023 - 28th summit through SE Ridge
May, 2024 - 29th Summit through SE Ridge
May, 2024 - 30th summit through SE Ridge
Pic Credit - Instagram of Kami Rita Sherpa
