Setting another world record, renowned mountaineer Appa Sherpa has successfully conquered the world’s highest peak for the record sixteenth time Friday morning.

Sherpa along with two Sherpas and one American reached atop Mt Everest at around 10.50 a.m. this morning.

Appa conquered the peak as a head guide of the American expedition group ‘Team No Limit’ comprising 12 foreigners and 14 high altitude guides, Ang Tshering Sherpa, president of the Nepal Mountaineering Association and managing director of Asian Trekking, the organisers of the expedition, informed Nepalnews.

He informed that other members of the team are also continuing their journey towards the top of Mount Everest.

Sherpa further said that Asian Trekking is proud to be the part of the Expedition, as Appa made a new record in the field of mountaineering.

Appa’s first successful ascent of Everest was on May 10, 1990 and he set foot atop the summit twice in 1992. He has been climbing the world’s highest peak regularly since 1990.

Appa announced retirement from climbing after he ascended Mount Everest for the 13th time in 2003, but he continued to clime the Mountain breaking his earlier records.

More mountaineers are climbing the Everest, setting several world records this season due to favourable weather conditions. 42 climbers scaled the world’s highest peak on Thursday itself.

According to Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Civil Aviation, climbers from the US, the UK, Poland, Canada, Australia, Spain, Philippines, Korea, Germany, Switzerland and Austria along with Sherpa guides of Nepal successfully reached the 8,848-meter summit in a single day.

Setting a world record, a 70-year-old Japanese climber scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, making him the oldest person in the world to achieve the feat.

The second Nepali women to climb the Mount Everest, Lakpa Sherpa, made another world record by ascending the peak for the sixth time.

New Zealand’s mountaineer Mark Inglis, who lost his legs in a climbing accident 24 years ago, become the first double amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest.