A British mountain guide scaled Mount Everest for the 19th time on Sunday, 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 8849-metre peak on Sunday 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. Only Nepali Sherpa guides have scaled the peak more times than Cool, with Sherpa guide Kami Rita having scaled Everest 30 times.