CASPER — A 53-year-old Nepalese mountain guide who summited Mount Everest twice in one week was comparing notes on the world’s tallest peak with those in the United States while visiting Wyoming.

Tika Bahadur Tamang scaled Mount Everest twice over a seven-day period in May 2007 and has climbed 20,000-foot mountains dozens of times.

The Nepal native has been spending some of his summer in Casper helping out friends at the Himalayan Indian Cuisine restaurant on Second Street.

While in the United States, he visited Colorado to see a former climbing client and scout out some of the peaks in the state. He is also planning a stop in Washington.

Tamang is co-founder of Trek Climb Ski Nepal, a company he and an Australian partner launched in 2006 that is dedicated to providing Australians with

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