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Appa Sherpa Summits Everest for Record 17th Time
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by salik | May 16, 2007 at 10:47 am
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Appa Sherpa Summits Everest for Record 17th TimeTHT Online
Kathmandu, May 16
Appa Sherpa broke his own world record on Wednesday by summitting Mount Everest, the world's highest peak, for a staggering seventeenth time, reports said.
"Despite bad weather, Appa Sherpa and seven others from his team reached the top of Everest at 8:45 am(NST)," the president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association, Ang Tsering Sherpa, told reporters. 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.
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at 10:57 on May 16th, 2007
salik, nice find. So much coverage goes to those who buy their way up the mountain, and few of us think of the sherpas, who do so much of the real work on these ascents.
at 08:22 on May 28th, 2007
Good stuff. Without the sherpas who would be able to climb Everest or any other in the area?