Nepal’s Mountaineer climbs Mt. Everest 23rd time

Nepal's mountaineer Kami Rita Sherpa has set up world recordby climbing Mouth Everest for the most number of times with his 23rd conquest.

Kami Rita Sherpa started the climb from Nepal side almoststrolled into the Mt Everest as eight Nepali climbers including him reached thetop of Mount Everest on Tuesday, opening the route for a potentially recordnumber of climbers to summit the world's highest mountain in the coming weeks.

These Sherpa's are called the ice doctors, who go up  first and fix the ropes for the traffic of mountaineersto come in the next few days.

"It has been difficult this year and we were gettingworried. But the weather finally improved for the eight to reach the top,"Iswari Paudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal, the company assigned to fix the ropes.

Mr. Poudel said that many teams were preparing to summit inthe next few days. This year Nepal has issued a record 378 permits costing$11,000 each to mountaineers for this year's spring climbing season, sparkingfears of overcrowding if the weather cuts down the number of climbing days.

Each of the Everest hopefuls are escorted by a Nepali guide,meaning about 750 climbers will tread the same path to the top of the8,850-metre (29,035-foot) peak in the coming weeks.

And at least 140 others are preparing to scale Everest usingthe northern route from Tibet, according to expedition operators, potentiallytaking the total past last year's record.

Each year between mid May and Mid June, the mountaineersfrom all over the world descend in the Everest base camp to use the window of opportunity.

A record 807 climbers reached the summit of Mount Everestlast year, with 563 people climbing from the south and 244 from the northernflank in Tibet. The mountain also claimed the lives of five climbers, includingan experienced Sherpa guide who was knocked down a crevasse by a rescuehelicopter.