A veteran mountain guide has scaled the world’s highest peak for the 18th time, breaking a record he set last spring.
Appa, a Sherpa who goes by only one name, reached the summit of
He made his first summit of Everest in 1989, and has been making the 29,035-foot climb almost every year since.
Dozens of other climbers have scaled Everest in the past three days, due in large part to good weather conditions.
Climbing on
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