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Apa Sherpa Summits Everest 21 Times – Alpinist.com

Climbing news | | May 13, 2011 4:29 am

On May 11, 2011, Apa Sherpa summited Everest for the 21st time, breaking his own record of 20 summits. Apa Sherpa first summited the mountain in 1990 while working for Rob Hall and Peter Hillary (son of Sir Edmund Hillary). Since 1990 Apa Sherpa has reached the top of the world’s tallest mountain almost every year. (In 1996 he declined work with Rob Hall to spend time finishing a lodge at his family home and in 2001 his team was unsuccessful.)

via Alpinist.com.

Incredible! This guy makes the potentially lethal expedition to the peak of Everest seem like a walk in the park.

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