He has also successfully summited both Mt. Everest and Cho Oyu with clients.
However, by the 2003 season, a half century after the historic climb by Hillary and Tenzing, that number exceeded 1,200, and more than 200 climbers had summited Everest two or more times.
But in 1958 he got the chance to attend the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute in Darjeeling, run at the time by Tenzing Norgay, the Sherpa who summited Everest with Hillary.
The greater part of these hills have the rounded and smooth top, or are tabularly summited.
On May 26, 2008 when he was 75, he made a second successful ascent, but Sherchan, age 76 and a former soldier, had summited the day before, on May 25, to claim the record.
At the start of the spring season that year, fewer than 200 individuals had summited Everest.
