Mount Everest: Nepali sherpa sets record with 27th climb
18 May 2023 |
3:44 pm
Kami Rita Sherpa has scaled the summit of the world's highest mountain almost every year since 1994. On the same day, however, a Moldovan climber became the fifth fatality on Everest this year.
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