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KATHMANDU: A Nepali mountaineer broke his own world record on Wednesday by summiting Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, for a staggering seventeenth time.
"Despite bad weather, Appa Sherpa and seven others from his team reached the top of Everest at 8:45 (0300 GMT)," the president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Ang Tsering Sherpa, told AFP.
The mountaineers stayed at the summit of the 8,848-metre (29,198-foot) peak for around 15 minutes before beginning their descent, he said.
Appa Sherpa is leading a team of seven "Super Sherpas" and one foreign climber who were scaling Everest to highlight the role of local mountain guides.
First scaled in 1953 by Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary, the peak has now been summited 3,067 times, the Nepal Mountaineering Association said.
- AFP
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