Kenton Cool extended his record for a foreign climber on Everest after reaching the summit before dawn on Friday, according to officials.
British climber Kenton Cool improved his own Everest record on Friday, reaching the summit of the world's highest mountain for the 20th time, hiking officials said.
Cool, 52, climbed the 8,849-metre peak before dawn and was descending to lower camps, Ishwori Poudel of expedition organising company Himalayan Guides said.
Cool's latest ascent gives him more Everest summits than any non-Sherpa climber, according to expedition organiser Lukas Furtenbach of Austria-based Furtenbach Adventures.
Cool climbed with one of Furtenbach's teams on the mountain.
"More Everest summits than any non-Sherpa ever... and still making it look like just another walk in the hills. Absolute legend," Furtenbach told Reuters from base camp.
Furtenbach, a four-time Everest climber, said Cool was "quietly rewriting the record books" with the latest climb.
Cool first climbed Everest in 2004 and has repeated the ascent every year except in years when authorities closed the mountain for various reasons.
He said reaching the height of Everest was still not routine despite his record number of climbs.
"It never gets any easier or any less frightening. It's the tallest mountain in the world and with it comes an incredible sense of majesty," Cool said in a statement.
"I rely on every bit of experience I have to move safely in this environment. Standing on the summit for the twentieth time is incredibly special," he added.
The overall record for the highest number of Everest summits is held by Nepali Sherpa Kami Rita at 32. More than 8,000 people have climbed Everest, many of them multiple times, since New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay first scaled it in 1953.
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