Kathmandu (AFP) - Apa Sherpa, the Nepalese climber who conquered Mount Everest a record 21 times, said Saturday his last ascent of the highest Summit of the world would last.
The father of 51 years three, nicknamed the "Super Sherpa" for the apparent ease with which it climbs, said that he wanted to give more young mountaineers a chance, but that it would not be dropped the sport in total.
"I decided to call it quits.". Whenever I monte Everest, my family worried about me, "Sherpa told AFP in the Nepalese capital, Kathmandu, after the extension of his own record with a 21st ascent of Mount Everest."
"I would like to give a chance for young mountaineers, but I will not abandon the mountains that I invested my life." I will train new climbers. ?
Sherpa, who was born in the Nepal, but now lives in the United States, first to the scale of the (29,028 feet) peak of 8, 848-metre in 1990.
He spoke to Everest dramatic changes over the past two decades, and after an expedition last year, said the higher temperatures were the mountain more in more dangerous for climbers.
"The snow slopes had melted, exposing bare rock below, which makes it very difficult for us to go up the slope as no there was no snow to dig our crampons in,"he told AFP in an interview."."
The climber has spent his last four ascents to the efforts to preserve the Everest, with Sherpa people consider sacred, and this year rise with a team of suppression of the tons of rubbish left by previous climbers.
Last year, Sherpa has created a foundation dedicated to the improvement of education in the remote Himalayan region where he grew up and on Saturday, he said, that it would now focus on the mobilization of funds for the charity.
About 3,000 people have it made at the Summit of Mount Everest since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to conquer the mountain in 1953.
The season on Everest summit begins in late April and may, when a small window between the spring and the summer monsoon offers the best conditions for climbing.
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