Mr. Kami Rita Sherpa, the Legendary climber, was born on 17th January, 1970 in Thame Village, Everest Region of Nepal. Thame is also the village of Legendary Tenzing Norgay Sherpa. Kami Rita Sherpa has reached the Mt.Everest 30 times and continues his climbing journey to the Himalayas.
Mr. Sherpa has been a mountain guide for almost three decades, having first summited Mount Everest in 1994 during a commercial expedition. During these 29 years, he has climbed many peaks over 8,000 meters, summiting them 44 times.
Kami Rita also mounted the world’s second-highest mountain, K-2, in Pakistan. He is a Nepali Sherpa climbing guide who, since May 2023, has held the record for most ascents to the summit of Mount Everest. He scaled Mt. Everest for the 30th time (twice) in May 2024, eclipsing his record set on 17th May, 2024. May 27 2025 once again Mr. Sherpa climbed Mount Everest for the 31st time and extended his more ascent of Mount Everest by a Human.
Mr. Kami’s family members are also skilled climbing guides. His father was among the first professional Sherpa climbing guides after Everest was opened to foreign mountaineers in 1950. His brother, Lakpa Rita Sherpa, is also an experienced climbing guide who has scaled Mt. Everest 17 times.
I can climb for a few more years, said Kami Rita Sherpa some time ago while giving an interview to the BBC. Also, he said that “I am physically and mentally healthy. I can go until I am 60 years old. With oxygen, it’s no big deal to climb any mountain, we were born in the high Himalayas”. Also, Kami Rita told the BBC that “I never think about making records. I have no idea about that I could make a record. If you had known about the record, I could have done more at the beginning when I started my climbing career.
This is the list that shows Kami Rita Sherpa’s ascents on Mount Everest time by time and year by year.
1994 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest on 13th May, via the south route.
1995 AD – Had to forsake the summit push at 8500 meters
1997 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 25th via the south route.
1998 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 25th through the south route.
1999 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 13th through the south route.
2000 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 23rd through the south route
2002 AD- Successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest via the south route.
2003 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 30th via the south route
2004 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 24th via the south route.
2005 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 30th via the south route
2006 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 20th via the south route
2007 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 22nd via the south route
2008 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 24th via the south route
2009 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 23rd via the south route
2010 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 5th via the south route
2012 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 18th via the south route
2013 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 22nd via the south route
2015 AD- All expeditions were called off due to devastating Earthquakes
2016 AD- Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 20th via the south route
2017 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 27th via the south route
2018 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 16th via the south route.
2019 AD – Successfully reached the summit of Mt.Everest on May 15th via the south route
2019 AD: Successfully reached the summit of Everest for the second time within a week of Mt.Everest on 21st May, 2019, via the south route
2021 AD: Successfully reached the summit of Everest via the south route – 25 times in totality
2022 AD: 26th Summit of Everest via south route
2023 AD: 17th May – 27th Mount Everest summit via south route
2023: 23rd May, 2023 – 28th Mount Everest summit via south route
May 2024 – 29th Mount Everest Summit Via the south route.
May 2024 – 30th Mount Everest summit via the south route
May 27, 2025 – 31st Mount Everest summit via south route
Congratulations, Mr. Sherpa for an extraordinary accomplishment, and he is going for many more years.
