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Veteran Climber Kami Rita Sherpa, center left, receives an honorary certificate during a function organized to mark Everest Day in Kathmandu, Nepal, Tuesday, May 29, 2018. Nepal has honored several Sherpa guides for their own Everest successes on the anniversary of the first conquest of the world's highest peak. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)

Nepal honors 9 guides for Everest successes on anniversary

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

In this March 26, 2018 file photo, Nepalese veteran Sherpa guide, Kami Rita, 48, poses for a photograph at his rented apartment in Kathmandu, Nepal. Rita, scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday morning May 16 for the 22nd time, setting the record for most climbs of the world's highest mountain, officials said. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha, File)

2 Sherpa guides scales Everest setting new records

By BINAJ GURUBACHARYA - Associated Press

In this May 2017 photo provided by Lhakpa Sherpa, Sherpa displays a flag from West Hartford, Conn., on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. Once a year, Sherpa heads back to her native Nepal to try and break her own record for successful summits of Mount Everest by a woman. (Courtesy of Lhakpa Sherpa via AP) ** FILE **

Male and female Sherpa guides break records for Everest climbs

By Adam Zielonka - The Washington Times

In this May 2017 photo provided by Lhakpa Sherpa, Sherpa displays a flag from West Hartford, Conn., on the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal. Once a year, Sherpa heads back to her native Nepal to try and break her own record for successful summits of Mount Everest by a woman. (Courtesy of Lhakpa Sherpa via AP) ** FILE **

‘I climb for all women’: Single mom plans 9th Everest summit

By PAT EATON-ROBB - Associated Press