Kami Rita (कामीरिता शेर्पा) (born 17 January 1970), Thame, Solukhumbu District, Nepal[1] is a Nepali Sherpa guide who, since May 2018, has held the record for most ascents to the summit of Mount Everest.

[9] On 16 May 2018, at age 48, Rita became the first person in the world to climb Mount Everest 22 times,[5] achieving the record of the most summits on the 8,848-meter (29,031-foot) peak.

Another report, however, states that he was already working as a porter, transporting gear to the Everest base camp, at age 12.

He said that when Ang Rita Sherpa was hospitalised in Kathmandu in 2017 after a brain haemorrhage, the government provided no support.

[18] Although climbing is safer than in the past because of superior equipment and weather forecasts, the occupation is still dangerous, he told a reporter in 2018.

[21] Rita is also a brand ambassador for a cement product, Brij Super Premium OPC, manufactured in Nepal.

[15][3] Rita was born and grew up in Thame, a small village in the Solukhumbu district of Nepal, living with his large family in a one-room house.

Thame is also the birthplace of other famous mountaineering Sherpas, including Tenzing Norgay who (alongside Sir Edmund Hillary) achieved the first ascent of Mount Everest in 1953.

[32] In his youth, he had considered becoming a monk and spent some time at the Thame Dechen Chokhorling monastery but decided not to proceed with this vocation.