KATHMANDU, May 26: British climber Kenton Cool reached the summit of Everest on Friday, his website announced, fulfilling an 88-year-old promise to carry an Olympic gold medal to the top of the world’s highest peak.

Cool, 38, reached the summit for a 10th time early in the morning, breaking his own British record for the most successful ascents of the 8,848-metre (29,029-foot) mountain.

He was carrying one of 21 golds awarded to members of a British Everest expedition at the 1924 Winter Olympics, in an era when mountaineering was included as an Olympic sport.—AFP