Kathmandu
AP
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A British mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest Sunday for the 19th time, breaking his own record for the most ascents of the world’s highest mountain by a non-Sherpa guide.
Kenton Cool, 51, from southwest England, scaled the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) peak on Sunday, May 18, along with several other climbers and he was doing well and on way down from the summit, said Iswari Paudel of Himalayan Guides Nepal, which equipped his expedition.
Cool first climbed Mount Everest in 2004 and has been doing it almost every year since then.
He was unable to climb Everest in 2014 because the season was canceled after 16 Sherpa guides were…
