Mount Everest: British Kenton Cool reaches listing 19th summit

British mountaineer Kenton Cool has scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time, breaking his personal listing for probably the most climbs up the sector’s tallest mountain for a non-sherpa.

The 51-year-old, who was once accompanied through Nepali sherpa Dorji Gyaljen, reached the 8,849m (29,000feet) top summit at 11:00 native time (04:15 GMT) on Sunday.

Mr Cool first climbed Everest in 2004 and has summited it virtually once a year since.

Mr Gyaljen logged his 23rd climb up Everest. Another Nepali sherpa, Kami Rita, holds the listing for making the maximum choice of Everest summits at 30, and may be recently at the mountain making an attempt to set a brand new listing.

Mr Cool’s record-setting feat comes after a minimum of two climbers – Subrata Ghosh from India and Philipp “PJ” Santiago II from the Philippines – died on Mount Everest this week.

After his 16th Everest ascent in 2022, Mr Cool looked as if it would play down his listing, noting that many Nepali climbers have surpassed it.

“I’m really surprised by the interest… considering that so many of the sherpas have so many more ascents,” he advised AFP in an interview then.

Four days prior to the most recent feat, Mr Cool advised his Instagram fans that he “finally [had] a positive forecast” that may permit him to move forward with the try.

“Let’s hope that we manage to thread the needle with regard to numbers of climbers and we have a safe and enjoyable time up high,” he wrote.

Fellow climbers hailed the fulfillment.

Mr Cool is a “great person to share stories from two decades on the mountain”, American adventurer Adrian Ballinger advised Reuters information company.

“His experience, charisma, and strength make him a valuable part of the Everest community,” says Mr Ballinger, who’s recently guiding a crew up Everest.

“Amazing, Kenton,” wrote Jordanian mountaineer Mostafa Salameh, who’s one among simplest 20 other people to finish the climb the very best mountains on all seven continents and overcome the North and South Poles.

Mr Cool may be a mountain information who has lead British explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes, amongst others, on a number of notable climbs together with Everest.