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Kami Rita was born on 17 January, 1970, is a Record-setting Sherpa mountain climber of highest peaks. Discover Kami Rita's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 54 years old?

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1950

His father was among the first professional Sherpa guides after Everest was opened to foreign mountaineers in 1950.

His brother Lakpa Rita, also a guide, scaled Everest 17 times.

1953

Thame is also the birthplace of other famous mountaineering Sherpas, including Tenzing Norgay who (alongside Sir Edmund Hillary) achieved the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.

In his youth, he had considered becoming a monk and spent some time at the Thame Dechen Chokhorling monastery but decided not to proceed with this vocation.

1970

Kami Rita (कामीरिता शेर्पा) (born 17 January 1970), Thame, Solukhumbu District, Nepal is a Nepali Sherpa guide who, since May 2018, has held the record for most ascents to the summit of Mount Everest.

Most recently, he scaled the mountain for a 28th time on 23 May 2023, breaking his own record set on 17 May 2023.

1992

According to Kami Rita's brother Lakpa Rita, Kami's first work on a mountain was in 1992, assisting a Base Camp cook.

Another report, however, states that he was already working as a porter, transporting gear to the Everest base camp, at age 12.

By age 24, he had scaled Everest.

2001

In addition to his Everest completions, his totals include Cho-Oyu eight times (2001, 2004, 2006, 2009, 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2016), Lhotse once (2011) and K2 once (2014).

2014

(the 2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche killed 16 Sherpas; in 2015, 10 Sherpas died at the Everest Base Camp after the avalanches in the wake of the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. In total, 118 Sherpas have died on Everest between 1921 and 2018. ) "The crevasses are deep and the slopes are unpredictable," Kami Rita said.

2017

In 2017, Kami Rita was the third person to reach the summit of Mount Everest 21 times, sharing this record with Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa.

The latter two subsequently retired.

He said that when Ang Rita Sherpa was hospitalised in Kathmandu in 2017 after a brain haemorrhage the government provided no support.

There is also another Kami Rita Sherpa who works on Everest and had completed his 16th summit in 2017 with Adventure Consultants.

Kami Rita summited Everest on 7 May 2021, breaking his own record with his 25th ascent, and again summited Everest on 7 May 2022, breaking his own record with his 26th ascent.

On 17 May 2023, three days after fellow sherpa Pasang Dawa completed his 26th ascent, matching the record, Kami Rita reclaimed his title by completing his 27th climb of Mount Everest.

On 22 May 2023 Pasang Dawa equalized the record again by summiting Mount Everest for the 27th time.

On 23 May Rita scaled Everest again extending his record to 28.

Kami Rita was born and grew up in Thame, a small village in the Solukhumbu district of Nepal, living with his large family in a one-room house.

2018

On 16 May 2018, at age 48, Kami Rita became the first person in the world to climb Mount Everest 22 times, achieving the record of the most summits on the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak.

In April of the year, he told the news media that he planned to scale Everest 25 times before retirement, "not just for myself but for my family, the Sherpa people and for my country, Nepal"; He completed his 28th summit of Everest on 23 May 2023.

Kami Rita currently holds the record for most 8,000 meter summits, with 38 total.

In 2018, Kami Rita told a journalist that the government does not support the Sherpas.

"We are famous around the world. Many foreigners know us, but our government doesn't care about us."

Although climbing is safer than in the past because of superior equipment and weather forecasts, the occupation is still dangerous, he told a reporter in 2018.

An April 2018 report by NPR stated that Sherpas account for one-third of Everest deaths.

In 2018, Kami Rita was earning about $10,000 for each Everest climb because of his extensive previous experience.

The highest peaks in Nepal are safe only around May of each year; in the autumn, he guides clients up the country's smaller peaks.

Prior to 2018, he had been employed by an American firm, Alpine Ascents International.

A 2018 report stated that Kami Rita lives with his wife, Lakpa Jangmu, and two children in Kathmandu.

He has ensured that his children are getting an education to enable them to choose occupations that are less dangerous than guiding mountaineers.

"We were illiterate and poor and there were no other means of survival [back then]. As a result, we were compelled to climb dangerous mountains to eke out a living," he told a journalist.

In another 2018 report, Lakpa Jangmu is quoted as saying that she wished that her husband would retire from mountaineering.

"I keep telling him we could look for other jobs, start a small business. But he does not listen to me at all."

She also confirmed that their children will not become mountain guides.

2019

As of May 2019, he was employed by Seven Summit Treks, a company that arranges climbing expeditions.

From August 2019, he has served as a Brand Ambassador and the Chief Adventure Consultant of Himalayan Glacier Adventure and Travel Company.

He has no plans to retire as long as his body is physically able to handle the climbing.

Kami Rita Sherpa is also a brand ambassador for a cement product, Brij Super Premium OPC, manufactured in Nepal.