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Filipino climber Ric Rabe documented his ascent to Mt. Everest's summit. Facebook/Ric Rabe

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Ric Rabe becomes first Filipino in nearly 2 decades to summit Mt. Everest

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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/1747446182814490515064_10232666452117309_335080108531814556_n.jpg" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left">Filipino climber Ric Rabe documented his ascent to Mt. Everest&#x27;s summit. <em>Facebook/Ric Rabe</em></span></span></span></div><p>MANILA — Congratulations, Ric Rabe for braving the heights of Mount Everest!</p><p>Filipino mountaineer Rhisael &quot;Ric&quot; Rabe successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest, the world&#x27;s highest peak, on Thursday, 7:15 a.m. (Nepal Time), his wife announced on social media.</p><p>Rabe, who hails from Cotabato City, defied Mount Everest&#x27;s extreme altitudes at 29,030 feet.</p><p>He becomes the first Filipino to reach the summit in nearly two decades since the last recorded Filipino ascent.</p><p>&quot;We all know  that Ric from Cotabato City — unsponsored, unpublicized, and quietly determined — already reached the summit yesterday morning (May 15) thru the South Col (Nepal),&quot; his wife Aileen Rabe wrote on Facebook.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/nation/2025/5/16/why-even-seasoned-climbers-are-at-risk-on-everest-1820">Why even seasoned climbers are at risk on Everest<br/></a></div><p>&quot;There are two other Filipino climbers currently making their way toward the top — widely expected by media and their sponsors to be the first Filipinos to reach the summit since the last recorded ascent of a Filipino almost two decades ago,&quot; she added.</p><p>She said her husband&#x27;s journey is not over yet since he still needs to descend.</p><p>Rabe also documented his first days of climb on Facebook.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/news/world/2025/5/15/filipino-climber-dies-while-preparing-to-summit-mt-everest-report-1815">Filipino climber dies while preparing to summit Mount Everest - report<br/></a></div><p>&quot;Day 1: Hazy sky, red sun, no planes. So we were helicoptered to Lukla instead. Trekked the sherpa way - 23+kg on the head, straight Lukhla to Phading in 2hrs! Usual time is 4 hours. My guide said we were fast. I said no. We could have run if I had my backpack,&quot; he shared on April 6, where he first started his Mt. Everest journey.</p><p>Climbing Mount Everest is known to be dangerous aside from challenging, due to scarcity of oxygen in high altitudes and its impact to circulatory, cardiovascular, and immune systems.</p><p>He is the sixth Filipino in total who conquered the mountain&#x27;s summit.</p><p>Other mountaineers from different countries reached the top with him as well.</p><p>Several Filipino mountaineering groups online poured support for Rabe&#x27;s success.</p><div><a href="https://www.abs-cbn.com/overseas/05/05/22/chinese-researchers-set-up-worlds-highest-weather-station-on-everest">Chinese researchers set up world&#x27;s highest weather station on Mount Everest to study roof of the world</a></div>

<p>Filipino mountaineer Rhisael "Ric" Rabe successfully reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak, on Thursday, 7:15 a.m. (Nepal Time), his wife announced on social media.</p>

Filipino mountaineer Rhisael "Ric" Rabe successfully reached the summit of Mt. Everest, the world's highest peak, on Thursday, 7:15 a.m. (Nepal Time), his wife announced on social media.

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Ric Rabe is first Filipino in nearly 2 decades to summit Everest

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Published May 17, 2025 10:43 AM PHT

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Updated May 23, 2025 08:26 PM PHT

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