Nepal's latest Everest Summiter climber, Appa Sherpa...

Appa atop for countdown no 17

Nepal's celebrated mountaineer Appa Sherpa scaled the world's highest peak Mount Everest for a record 17th time on Wednesday, May 16, 2007. Appa, 47, who was leading a 7-member team of Sherpas on a charity climb to raise education funds for children of mountain guides -- reached the summit at 8:45 on May 17 morning. Appa and his team member of the Super Sherpa expedition Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa shot a video for a documentary and took some pictures on the top of the world.The footages of the climb will be made into a charity documentary, the money raised from which will go towards providing better education and health care for children in the Sherpa community in the mountainous regions. World record holder with 17 summits, four without oxygen on Mt. Everest, Appa, married with four children, reached the top of the world in the spring of 1990 for the first time.Meanwhile, television journalist Kami Sherpa also scaled Mount Everest.