A Nepalese Sherpa scaled Mount Everest for a record 26th time, beating his own previous record set last year.
The climbing route used by Kami Rita was pioneered by New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepal’s sherpa Tenzing Norgay in 1953 and remains the most popular.
This year Nepal has issued 316 permits to climb Everest in the peak season, which runs through May, compared with 408 last year, the highest ever.
Everest has been climbed 10,657 times since it was first scaled in 1953 from Nepali and Tibetan sides.
