A record nineteen times on top of the world

British mountaineer Kenton cool (51) on Sunday at eleven o’clock local time, he broke his own record in the number of climbs to the highest mountain in the world among alpinists who are not sherpa. At the top of the 8849 -meter high Mount Everest, it stood for the nineteenth time. Four days before the latest record, he informed the followers on Instagram that the weather forecast was « finally favorable » and allowed him to try to win the summit. « I hope that, given the number of climbers, we will be able to put the thread in the seamstress so that we will be safe in the heights and enjoy, » he wrote. The spring climbing season is very popular at Everest. It will expire at the end of May, with the arrival of a monsoon rainy season that makes it difficult to climb. Cool, coming from southwestern England, won the summit with some more climbers, Iskari Paudel From Himalayan Guides Nepal, who equipped his expedition, he announced that he was making good progress in the descent.

The record feat was also praised by his mountaineering colleagues. British-American Mountain Guide Adrian Ballingerwho has led more than 150 expeditions, is for the agency Reuters said that Kenon Cool is a « wonderful man you can share stories about two decades on the mountain » and that he is a valuable member of the Everest community because of « his experience, charisma and power. » Mostafa Salmehwho won seven highest peaks on all seven continents as the first Muslim. « Amazing, Kenton, » he wrote. Mount Everest was fatal for at least two climbers this week, Subrato goose from India and Philippa Santiago II. from the Philippines, reports BBC.

Every year on top

Kenton Cool, who also works as a mountain guide and also led British researcher cheese on several important climbs, including Everest, Ranaupha fiennesthe first man to win both the North and Southern Course, first climbed Everest in 2004 and has since won almost every year. In 2014, he could not climb the summit because the season was canceled after 16 sherps died in the avalanche. A year later, the plans were crossed by an earthquake that triggered a snow avalanche, which buried 19 people underneath and in 2020 the Pandemic of Coronavirus.

This time he was accompanied by Sherpa Dordži Gjalzenwhich stood at the top of the world for the twenty -threeth time on Sunday. The world record holder in Mount Everest is the Nepalese Sherpa Kami Ritawho has won the summit thirty times, but is just trying to set a new world record on the mountain.

Also, Kenton Cool himself, as early as 2022, when he climbed Everest for the sixteenth time, warned that Sherpe was significantly outperformed in this respect. « I am very surprised by interest, especially since many sherps have so many climbs, » he said at the time in an interview with the French Press Agency AFP.