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UK climber scales Mount Everest for record 20th time

A ⁠British ⁠climber has improved his own ⁠Everest record and notched his 20th ​ascent of the world's highest mountain, hiking officials say.

Kenton Cool, 52, ‌climbed the 8,849m peak and was descending to lower camps, said Ishwori ⁠Poudel of ⁠the expedition organising company Himalayan Guides.

Cool is "quietly rewriting the ​record books," said four-time Everest climber and expedition organiser Lukas Furtenbach of the Austria-based Furtenbach Adventures company.

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