British mountaineer scales Mount Everest for record 19th time

A British mountain guide has scaled Mount Everest Sunday for the 19th time, 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 29,032-foot peak on Sunday along with several other climbers. He was doing well and on his 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.