A break in the weather brought a rush to the top of Mount Everest, and officials say it set a new one-day record.

Hundreds of climbers scaled Mount Everest on Wednesday, with 274 successful ascents, officials said Thursday.

Rishi Ram Bhandari of the Expedition Operators Association Nepal said climbers took advantage of the clear weather on Wednesday.

He said it was the highest number of climbers to reach the summit on a single day from the popular route on the southern face of the peak, which is in Nepal.

Everest can be climbed from the southern side in Nepal or the northern face in China’s Tibet. On May 22, 2019, Nepal’s side had 223 climbers on the summit and the Chinese side had 113.

Chinese authorities have closed the route this year.

Earlier this week, veteran mountain guide Kami Rita Sherpa scaled the peak for the 32nd time, breaking his own record. His closest competitor, Pasang Dawa Sherpa, scaled the peak for the 30th time this week.

Lakpa Sherpa also scaled Everest for the 11th time, topping her own record for the highest number of climbs by a female climber.

This year’s Everest climbing season began late because of risk from a huge serac hanging over the key route to the summit.

Around 494 climbers and an equal number of their Sherpa guides are expected to attempt to scale the 8,850-meter peak by the end of this month, when the climbing season ends.

Thousands of people have climbed Everest since it was first scaled on May 29, 1953, by New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Sherpa guide Tenzing Norgay.

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