Most ascents of Everest (male)

At 4 a.m. on 27 May 2025, 55-year-old mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa (Nepal, b. 17 January 1970) successfully summitted Everest (aka Sagarmāthā or Chomolungma) for the 31st time in his mountaineering career. He reached the summit via the traditional south-east ridge route while guiding members of the Indian army for Seven Summit Treks.

At 8,848.86 m (29,032 ft) above sea level, Everest is the highest mountain on Earth. In 2020, a joint initiative by Chinese and Nepalese land surveyors announced that Everest's height had grown from the 8,848-m (29,029-ft) elevation that had been logged by the Survey of India in 1954.

Kami Rita completed his first climb of Everest on 13 May 1994, aged 24, and has scaled it nearly every year since (some years, such as 2023 and 2024, twice), when it has been permitted. In 2020, the south side in Nepal was closed to climbers owing to the coronavirus pandemic; a partial reopening in 2021 enabled him to achieve his 25th summit on 7 May 2021.

His closest contender is fellow guide Pasang Dawa Sherpa (Nepal), who has made 29 Everest summits to date, most recently on 20 May 2025, just five days after his 28th ascent.

The first people to top Everest were New Zealand's Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tenzing Norgay (b. Tibet, China) on 29 May 1953.