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to the UNESCO Memory of the world archive in 2013, it is currently held by Auckland War Memorial Museum. Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in secondary school. He made his first major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount
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1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition Led by Edouard Wyss-Dunant, the 1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition saw Raymond Lambert and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay reach a height of about on the southeast ridge, setting a new climbing altitude record, opening up a new route to Mount Everest and paving the way for further successes by other expeditions. Tibet had closed to foreigners but Nepal had just opened up. In 1951 Eric Shipton's British-New Zealand reconnaissance had climbed the Khumbu Icefall and reached the elusive Western Cwm, proving that Everest could be climbed from Nepal. Unfortunately for the British, who had enjoyed exclusive
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part of a training exercise by a British expedition that went on to summit Mount Everest. The team who climbed Imja Tse comprised Tenzing Norgay, Charles Evans, Alfred Gregory, Charles Wylie and seven other Sherpas. The main summit was first climbed in 1956 by Hans-Rudolf Von Gunten and two unknown Sherpas, members of a Swiss team that went on to make the second ascent of Everest and first ascent of Lhotse. Imja Tse is a popular mountaineering objective for climbers in Nepal, with its standard climbing route having the difficulty rating of Alpine PD+. The peak is typically climbed in
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is focused when those lost are clients. Norgay is an alumnus of Northland College. Jamling Tenzing Norgay Jamling Tenzing Norgay (; born 23 April 1965) is a Nepali and Indian Sherpa mountain climber. Norgay is the son of Nepali mountaineer and guide Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third wife. Jamling Tenzing Norgay himself later followed in his father's footsteps and climbed Everest in 1996 with a team led by David Breashears that also included mountaineer Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra, an experience documented in the 1998 IMAX film "Everest".
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Jamling Tenzing Norgay Jamling Tenzing Norgay (; born 23 April 1965) is a Nepali and Indian Sherpa mountain climber. Norgay is the son of Nepali mountaineer and guide Tenzing Norgay (who first climbed Mount Everest in 1953 with Sir Edmund Hillary) and Daku, his third wife. Jamling Tenzing Norgay himself later followed in his father's footsteps and climbed Everest in 1996 with a team led by David Breashears that also included mountaineer Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra, an experience documented in the 1998 IMAX film "Everest". In 2002, he and Peter Hillary, the son of Edmund Hillary, were part of
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Jürg Marmet Jürg Marmet (September 14, 1927 – March 8, 2013) was a Swiss mountaineer. Marmet was part of the first two-man Swiss team which climbed Mount Everest in 1956. (Prior to this, only Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay had successfully climbed the mountain in 1953). Marmet and his climbing partner, Ernst Schmied, became the third and fourth people (and the second two-man team) to reach Mount Everest's summit on May 23, 1956. He was also one of the first Swiss citizens to climb to the top of Mount Everest. Marmet and Schmied narrowly beat the next Swiss team
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of a French expedition in 1951. Tenzing Norgay who first climbed Mount Everest was a part of the support team. He and Louis Dubost climbed Sunanda Devi to look for the missing pair. Tenzing Norgay later stated that it was the most difficult climb of his life, even more difficult than Everest. Since then the peak has been reached by an Indo-French group in 1975 and perhaps also an Indian Army expedition in 1981 but the mountaineers in this last case did not survive to tell the story. The standard approach to the south ridge route is from the Milam
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Eco Everest Expedition Eco Everest Expedition is an annual expedition drill, started in 2008, with the sole aim of clearing and removing accumulated debris on Mount Everest. Mount Everest, the highest mountain on earth, has attracted thousands of mountaineers in the last two centuries and was first successfully climbed in 1953 by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. Hundreds of expeditions left garbage and mountaineering equipment by the ascent lines. Some items at high altitude remained there for decades and gradually piled up. Garbage became a threat to the environment and future expeditions. As of 2012, more than of debris and
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prove this point because in 1936 he and Noel Odell were to make the first ascent of the Nanda Devi, the highest mountain climbed until Annapurna in 1950. The expedition was to have an unlikely influence on the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, the first time the summit was reached. Tenzing Norgay had been impressive in 1935 – in future years he went on to be Sherpa many times on Everest, including on the 1952 Swiss Mount Everest expeditions. In fact he was on all the subsequent British expeditions, including 1936 and 1938, culminating in his reaching the summit of
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of food and alcohol to be repaid. One of the best-known Sherpas is Tenzing Norgay. In 1953, he and Sir Edmund Hillary became the first people known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Norgay's son Jamling Tenzing Norgay also climbed Everest in honor of his father with the mountaineers Ed Viesturs and Araceli Segarra during the disastrous year of 1996. In 2001, Temba Tsheri became the youngest Everest climber in the world (holder of the Guinness World Record), then aged 16. In 2003, Sherpas Pemba Dorje and Lhakpa Golu competed to see who could climb Everest from base
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Peter Hillary Peter Edmund Hillary (born 26 December 1954) is a British / New Zealander mountaineer, philanthropist and writer. He is the son of adventurer Sir Edmund Hillary, who, along with Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay, completed the first successful ascent of Mount Everest. When Peter Hillary summited Everest in 1990, he and his father were the first father/son duo to achieve the feat. Hillary has achieved two summits of Everest, an 84-day trek across Antarctica to the South Pole, and an expedition guiding astronaut Neil Armstrong to land a small aircraft at the North Pole. He has climbed many
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due to the Olympic torch relay being taken to the summit of Mount Everest. Mt. Everest has two main climbing routes, the southeast ridge from Nepal and the north ridge from Tibet, as well as many other less frequently climbed routes. Of the two main routes, the southeast ridge is technically easier and more frequently used. It was the route used by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 and the first recognised of 15 routes to the top by 1996. This was, however, a route decision dictated more by politics than by design, as the Chinese border was closed
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first climbed by Charles Evans and Tom Bourdillon on the 1953 British Mount Everest expedition, on May 26, 1953. They were unable to continue on to the primary summit, but Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, the next pair to make a summit bid, traversed the South Summit to reach the main peak. The distance separating the two summits is approximately . On reaching the South Col in 1953, expedition leader John Hunt was struck by the sight, writing "Above us rose the South Summit of Everest ... an elegant snow spire, breathtakingly close yet nearly 3000 feet above our heads
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lifelong fear of heights, Fiennes climbed the Eiger by its North Face, with sponsorship totalling £1.8 million to be paid to the Marie Curie Cancer Care Delivering Choice Programme. In 2008, Fiennes made his second attempt to climb Mount Everest, getting to within 400 metres of the summit before bad timing and bad weather stopped the expedition. On 20 May 2009, Fiennes reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the oldest British person to achieve this. Fiennes also became the first person ever to have climbed Everest and crossed both polar ice-caps. Of the other handful of adventurers who had
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Patrick Morrow Patrick Allan Morrow, (born October 18, 1952 in Invermere, British Columbia) is a Canadian photographer and mountain climber. In 1986 he was the first person to climb the Seven Summits in the "Carstensz-Version". Morrow climbed Mount Everest, the highest peak of the world, with the ""Canadian Mount Everest Expedition 1982"". Between 1977 and 1986 he climbed the Seven Summits in the more difficult "Carstensz-Version" ("Messner list"). Morrow was the first person to summit all the seven peaks on the "Messner List" of Seven Summits while Richard Bass was the first to complete the "Bass List". Morrow was the
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Khoo Swee Chiow Khoo Swee Chiow (; born November 16, 1964 in Port Dickson, Malaysia) is a Singaporean adventurer, author and motivational speaker. Khoo is the 1st South East Asian and the 4th person in the world to complete The Explorers Grand Slam, that is, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Seven Summits. Khoo climbed Mount Everest in 1998 as a member of Singapore's first Mount Everest expedition. In 1999, he skied to the South Pole as the leader of Singapore first Antarctica expedition, covering a distance of 1,125 km in 57 days. In 2001, he climbed Mount
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and Makalu (2008). On 20 May 2009, Dujmovits climbed Lhotse—his final 8000-metre peak—with his former wife Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Hirotaka Takeuchi and David Göttler. This made Dujmovits the 16th person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, and the first German person to do so. Dujmovits returned to Mount Everest in 2012 for the sixth time, attempting to climb it without bottled oxygen (Mount Everest is the only eight-thousander he has not climbed without bottled oxygen). Although he did not reach the summit, while he was descending he took a photo of a long queue of climbers queuing to ascend the mountain; the
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that he had lost friends, equipment, and houses due to the 2015 Nepal earthquakes. Temba Tsheri Temba Tsheri Sherpa () is a Sherpa from Rolwaling Valley, Dolkha, Nepal. On May 23, 2001, at the age of 16 years, he became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. The youth, who was still in school, lost five fingers to frostbite while attempting to climb from the south side in 2000. He made his successful ascent from the north side (Tibet) of Mount Everest in 2001. Temba was climbing with the International Everest Expedition. Jordan Romero from United States climbed Mount Everest
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Temba Tsheri Temba Tsheri Sherpa () is a Sherpa from Rolwaling Valley, Dolkha, Nepal. On May 23, 2001, at the age of 16 years, he became the youngest person to climb Mount Everest. The youth, who was still in school, lost five fingers to frostbite while attempting to climb from the south side in 2000. He made his successful ascent from the north side (Tibet) of Mount Everest in 2001. Temba was climbing with the International Everest Expedition. Jordan Romero from United States climbed Mount Everest on May 22, 2010. Aged of 13. In an interview in 2015 he noted
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Bike" was published in June 2007. Mount Everest summits of Khoo Swee Chiow (Swee-Chiow Khoo) Khoo Swee Chiow Khoo Swee Chiow (; born November 16, 1964 in Port Dickson, Malaysia) is a Singaporean adventurer, author and motivational speaker. Khoo is the 1st South East Asian and the 4th person in the world to complete The Explorers Grand Slam, that is, the South Pole, the North Pole and the Seven Summits. Khoo climbed Mount Everest in 1998 as a member of Singapore's first Mount Everest expedition. In 1999, he skied to the South Pole as the leader of Singapore first Antarctica
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record holder was Temba Tsheri who climbed Everest at the age of 16 in 2001. At the time of this record, 2003, about 1200 people had reached the summit of Mount Everest since 1953 with about 175 dying. Ming Kipa Ming Kipa () (born 1988) is a Nepalese Sherpa girl who held the record as the youngest person to climb Mount Everest from 2003 to 2010. She reached the summit on May 22, 2003 when she was 15 years old, with her brother Mingma Gyula and her sister Laphka. Nepalese law does not allow climbers under 16 to climb Everest,
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of Mountaineering and Allied Sports, Minali. Pandey scaled the Mount Everest in on May 21, 2016. By reciting the national anthem of India, Jana Gana Mana, he became first person in the world to the recite national anthem of their own country at the top of Mount Everest, as reported by The Free Press Journal. In September 2016, Pandey climbed Mount Damavand, Iran's highest mountain and Mount Sabalan, its third-highest montain, in a mountaineering expedition organized in Iran by the International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation. In April 2015, Ratnesh Pandey succeeded in climbing 22,000 feet of Mount Everest, but could
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north. After Romero climbed Mount Everest he and Katherine Blanc wrote a book "The Boy Who Conquered Everest: The Jordan Romero Story". In the end of 2014 Romero with Linda LeBlanc wrote another book "No Summit out of Sight The True Story of the Youngest Person to Climb the Seven Summits". Jordan Romero Jordan Romero (born July 12, 1996) is an American mountain climber who was 13 years old when he reached the summit of Mount Everest. Romero was accompanied by his father Paul Romero, his step-mother Karen Lundgren, and three Sherpas, Ang Pasang Sherpa, Lama Dawa Sherpa, and Lama
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Sudarshan Gautam, who was descending the mountain after becoming the first person without arms to summit Everest without using prosthetics. Gautam was rescued after collapsing near Camp 3. On 21 May 2013 a team from Lawrence School Sanawar climbed Mt. Everest. The first school to do this globally. On 21 May, Arunima Sinha became the first female amputee to summit Everest. Phurba Tashi completed his 21st summit in May, a total equal to the record held by Apa Sherpa. On 27 April, three climbers were attacked by a group of 100 Sherpas at 21,000 feet elevation. The event was seen
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15 years old (she climbed with Lhakpa and Gelu), thus becoming the youngest woman and person known to have summited Mount Everest (see also Temba Tsheri and Jordan Romero). Her brother is Mingma Gelu Sherpa and is noted to have reached the summit of Mount Everest eight times by 2016. The BBC noted that when three of them reached the summit together in 2003, that was the first group of three siblings on the summit at the same time, as recognized by the "Guinness Book of World Records". On the 2004 Connecticut Everest Expedition her then-husband Dijmarescu struck Lhapka. According
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five summits. In 1970, the Japanese mountaineer and adventurer Naomi Uemura (1941-1984) was the first person to reach five of the Seven Summits including Mount Everest. He climbed Mont Blanc (1966), Kilimanjaro (1966), Aconcagua (1968), Mount Everest (1970 solo) and Denali (1970 solo). After the first solo trip to the North Pole (1978), he planned to go on his own to Antarctica to climb Mount Vinson. In preparation for the Antarctica expedition, he did a solo winter ascent of Denali (1984). On the descent he disappeared in a winter storm. In 1978, the Italian mountaineer Reinhold Messner was the first
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two expeditions for climbing eight-thousanders in Himalayas before monsoons. On 16 May 2017 he climbed successfully the fourth highest summit on the planet -Lhotse, 8516m. Only 5 days later Skatov climbed successfully on 22 May Everest, 8848 for second time, but now from south side. So Atanas Skatov is the first Bulgarian, who climbed Mount Everest from north and from south ridges. After Lhotse and Everest, Skatov climbed solo in alpine style on 20 June 2017his last one of Seven summits-Denali, 6197m. Atanas Skatov Atanas Georgiev Skatov (Dimitrov until 2009) is a Bulgarian alpinist, vegan, agronomist in plant protection, entomologist
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altitudes. The use of bottled oxygen to ascend Mount Everest has been controversial. It was first used on the 1922 British Mount Everest Expedition by George Finch and Geoffrey Bruce who climbed up to at a spectacular speed of 1,000 vertical feet per hour (vf/h). Pinned down by a fierce storm, they escaped death by breathing oxygen from a jury-rigged set-up during the night. The next day they climbed to at 900 vf/h—nearly three times as fast as non-oxygen users. Yet the use of oxygen was considered so unsportsmanlike that none of the rest of the Alpine world recognised this
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which climbed to a height of 8000 meters . The biggest success was the ascent without oxygen on Mount Everest in 2002. In 2004, climbed Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Mount McKinley and Vinson Massif, in 2005, Puncak Jaya, Mount Kosciuszko and Aconcagua . The first Czechoslovak and second in the world and climbed without oxygen seven highest peaks in the project Seven Summits. His hobbies include photography, especially panoramas countries visited and top prospects. He wrote a book Oyu & Everest, that recounts the story of a successful climb Cho- Oyu combination and Mount Everest . Miroslav Caban Miroslav Caban (* April
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Atanas Skatov Atanas Georgiev Skatov (Dimitrov until 2009) is a Bulgarian alpinist, vegan, agronomist in plant protection, entomologist and ecologist. He is the first known vegan climber to have climbed Everest, on 24 May 2014. Currently, he is attempting to scale the 14 highest summits on Earth as a vegan, and has climbed five of the fourteen eight–thousanders: Mount Everest north and south, Manaslu, Annapurna, Makalu, and Lhotse. On 20 June 2017 Atanas Skatov climbed solo in alpine style Denali peak in Alaska and became the world's first vegan who climbed the Seven Summits. On 13 May 2018 Atanas Skatov
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Annabelle Bond Annabelle Bond OBE (born 1969) is a British socialite, international adventurer and activist, who came to prominence after climbing the summit of Mount Everest on 15 May 2004, making her the fourth British woman to do so. In 2005 she became the fastest woman and fourth-fastest person to ever climb all Seven Summits, when she climbed them in 360 days. Her televised climb of Everest portrayed her as the glamorous blonde who brought her lipstick to the summit of Everest. Despite her mountain climbing feats, she devotes much of her time to charity fundraising and heads the Eve
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Hong Kong court. Annabelle Bond Annabelle Bond OBE (born 1969) is a British socialite, international adventurer and activist, who came to prominence after climbing the summit of Mount Everest on 15 May 2004, making her the fourth British woman to do so. In 2005 she became the fastest woman and fourth-fastest person to ever climb all Seven Summits, when she climbed them in 360 days. Her televised climb of Everest portrayed her as the glamorous blonde who brought her lipstick to the summit of Everest. Despite her mountain climbing feats, she devotes much of her time to charity fundraising and
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is 6,961 meters (or 22,838 feet) high. In February 2018, Samina Baig was named Pakistan's National Goodwill Ambassador by UNDP. A documentary film Beyond the Heights was also made on her expedition to Mount Everest. Samina Baig Samina Khayal Baig (; born 19 September 1990) is a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer who in 2013 climbed Mount Everest and then all Seven Summits by 2014. She is the first and only Pakistani woman to climb Everest and the Seven Summits. She is also the youngest Muslim woman to climb Mount Everest, having done so at the age of 21. Samina was the
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Johnny Strange (adventurer) John Robert "Johnny" Strange (December 26, 1991 – October 1, 2015) was a world record holding adventurer. At 17, he became the youngest to climb the Seven Summits, a record now held by Jordan Romero at 15 years, 5 months and 12 days. He was best known as a professional wingsuit BASE jumper. Strange was from Malibu, CA. His father Brian Strange and his mother Dianette Wells are both adventurers who have climbed Mount Everest. His first climb, at age 12, was Vinson Massif in Antarctica. Following that, he climbed Mount Everest, Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Elbrus, Mount
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Hristo Prodanov Hristo Prodanov () (February 24, 1943 - April 21, 1984) was a Bulgarian mountaineer. He was the first Bulgarian who climbed Mount Everest, doing it through the most difficult way - the West Ridge- as well as alone and without oxygen. He was the first person to climb Everest in April, when the weather conditions are generally too bad for an expedition. He died in a storm during the descent. Prodanov was still a student when he became involved in mountaineering. He began work as a metallurgical engineer in Kremikovtzi AD in 1976. He had his first 7000
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2006 Philippine Mount Everest expedition The 2006 Philippine Mount Everest expedition was the quest for the first Filipino's to climb Mount Everest, and to put the Philippine flag on top of the mountain. The expedition, consisting of Filipino triathlete Leo Oración and Erwin Emata, was backed by Philippine television network ABS-CBN; Romeo Garduce, who was climbing at the same time, was sponsored by rival GMA-7. Despite having rival sponsors, both teams maintained that it was not a race to the top of Mount Everest. They made their ascent via the South Col route. A third Filipino, Dale Abenojar, climbed independently,
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Samantha Larson Samantha Larson (born 1988) is an American mountain climber from Long Beach, California. On May 16, 2007, at the age of 18, she became temporarily the youngest non-Nepalese woman to summit Mount Everest. By reaching the top of Everest, she also became temporarily the youngest person to have climbed the Seven Summits (the "Bass list"), the tallest mountains on each of the seven continents. She and her father, Dr. David Larson, became the first father-daughter team to complete the Seven Summits. In August 2007 they climbed the Carstensz Pyramid, thereby also completing the "Messner list" of the Seven
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Ratnesh Pandey Ratnesh Pandey (born 12 May 1985) is an Indian mountaineer, who climbed Mount Everest in 2016 and first in the world to recite the national anthem of his country at the highest peak of Mount Everest. He is the first mountaineer since Madhya Pradesh to scale Mount Everest. He also holds a Guinness World Record for his motorbike stunts. He received the "Khel Alankaran" award by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in November 2016. Pandey is from Satna, Madhya Pradesh. He is a BBA graduate. He completed his basic and advanced mountaineering course from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute
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Samina Baig Samina Khayal Baig (; born 19 September 1990) is a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer who in 2013 climbed Mount Everest and then all Seven Summits by 2014. She is the first and only Pakistani woman to climb Everest and the Seven Summits. She is also the youngest Muslim woman to climb Mount Everest, having done so at the age of 21. Samina was the first to climb the peak Chashkin Sar (above 6,000 meters) in Pakistan in 2010, which was later renamed "Samina Peak" after her. She reached the summit of 'Koh-i-Brobar' ('Mount Equality') in 2011. An attempt at
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as preparation for her ascent of Everest Sinha and Susan Mahout, a USAF instructor, who had together climbed Mount Chaser Sangria () in 2012 under the guidance of Hendrick Pal started their ascent of Mount Everest. After a hard toil of 17 hours, Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group-sponsored "Eco Everest Expedition", becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest. She took 52 days to reach the summit. She wrote a small message thanking the Almighty on a wrapped cloth and pressed it in the snow.
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In the winter of 2002 and 2003, Winkler climbed Aconcagua in Argentina, the tallest mountain in South America. In late 2005, Winkler started a six-month tour of seven countries that started at the Dead Sea by bicycle and ended at Mount Everest. On 20 May 2006, Winkler became the first insulin-dependent diabetic to reach the top of Mount Everest. Two examples Geri Winkler Geri Winkler (born 13 April 1956 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian mountaineer, who was the first insulin-dependent diabetic to reach the summit of Mount Everest. Since 1984, Winkler has taught mathematics, French, and German language in
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Ed Viesturs Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is a high-altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker. He is the only American to have climbed all 14 of the world's eight-thousander mountain peaks, and the fifth person to do so without using supplemental oxygen. Along with Apa Sherpa, he has summitted peaks of over 8,000 meters on 21 occasions, including Mount Everest seven times; only four other climbers, Phurba Tashi Sherpa Mendewa, Juanito Oiarzabal, Namgyal Sherpa, and Ang Dorje Sherpa, have more high-altitude ascents. Viesturs took part in the 1996 IMAX filming of "Everest" shortly after the 1996 Mount Everest disaster, which
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members Leo Oracion and Erwin "Pastor" Emata, who had climbed to the top of Mount Everest via the Nepal side or the south slope and reached it on May 17 and 18, 2006. The FPMEE had dismissed Abenojar’s CTMA summit certificate as a "forgery" and his claim a "hoax", and maintained that Oracion and Emata were the first and second Filipinos to conquer Mount Everest. SYNOPSIS: Dale Abenojar: Did He or Didn't He Scale Mount Everest - "CHILD IN EVEREST": A DOCUMENTARY Many are skeptical that he made it to the summit and was actually able to scale the highest
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damage, continue to be studied. Although generally less popular than spring, Mount Everest has also been climbed in the autumn (also called the "post-monsoon season"). For example, in 2010 Eric Larsen and five Nepali guides summited Everest in the autumn for the first time in ten years. The first mainland British ascent of Mount Everest (Hillary was from New Zealand), which was also the first ascent via a face rather than a ridge, was the autumn 1975 Southwest Face expedition led by Chris Bonington. The autumn season, when the monsoon ends, is regarded as more dangerous because there is typically
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in Asia (Khan Tengri, Lenin Peak, Peak Korzhenevskaya, Communism Peak and Peak Pobeda), which are all over 7,000 metres high. This achievement gained him the honorific title "Snow Leopard", awarded by the Russian Climbing Federation. This recognition led him to his high altitude mountaineering career. Mahruki summited Mount Everest (8,848 m.) on May 15, 1995, being the first ever Turkish and Muslim person to do so. In 1996, he completed the climbing of Seven Summits in seven continents (Everest, Aconcagua, Vinson Massif, Kilimanjaro, McKinley, Elbrus and Kosciuszko), being the youngest person to do so. In 1997, he climbed Cho Oyu
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and swift flowing rivers, offers great scope for adventure sports such as Heliskiing, Ice Skating, Ice Hockey, water skiing, paragliding and mountaineering and Snowboarding. Tsewang Paljor and Tsewang Samanla from Leh was part India's first team to reach the summit of Mount Everest (from the North Col side). Sonam Wangyal, also from Leh, climbed Mount Everest when he was 23, making him the youngest person to do so at the time. Jammu and Kashmir has 19 stadiums, 23 training centers, three indoor sports complexes and 43 government maintained playing fields. This includes Sher-i-Kashmir Stadium, TRC turf ground, Bakshi Stadium, Amar
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Danielle Fisher Danielle Fisher (born 1985) is an American mountain climber who in 2005 became the youngest person to complete the Seven Summits and the youngest American to climb Mount Everest. Fisher was raised in Bow, Washington, where she was introduced to the outdoors at an early age, visiting the Cascade Mountains often with her parents and sister. She struggled academically throughout elementary school, and was diagnosed with attention deficit disorder in the sixth grade. By her junior year of high school, she had climbed Mount Adams, Mount Baker and Mount Rainier with her father and Mike Woodmansee, an experienced
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border influenced Shipton to retreat from the mountain rather than continue to attempt to summit. The mountain was first climbed on October 19, 1954, via the north-west ridge by Herbert Tichy, Joseph Jöchler and Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama of an Austrian expedition. Cho Oyu was the fifth 8000 metre peak to be climbed, after Annapurna in June 1950, Mount Everest in May 1953, Nanga Parbat in July 1953 and K2 in July 1954. Until the ascent of Mount Everest by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler in 1978, this was the highest peak climbed without supplemental oxygen. Cho Oyu is considered
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South Col The South Col is the sharp-edged notch or pass between Mount Everest and Lhotse, the highest and fourth highest mountains in the world, respectively. When climbers attempt to climb Everest from the southeast ridge in Nepal, their final camp (usually Camp IV) is situated on the South Col. The South Col is typically swept by high winds, leaving it free of significant snow accumulation. The South Col was first reached by Edouard Wyss-Dunant's 1952 Swiss Mount Everest Expedition that failed to reach the summit. The following year, when Mount Everest was first climbed, Wilfrid Noyce and the Sherpa
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climbed six of the Seven Summits together: Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa; Mount Elbrus, Europe; Mount McKinley, North America; Aconcagua, South America; Vinson Massif, Antarctica and Mount Kosciuszko, Australia. In 2001, the Ershlers attempted their seventh and highest summit, Mount Everest in Asia. After 63 days on the mountain, within of the summit, they turned around and descended. They returned for a second attempt one year later. On May 16, 2002, at 10:20 a.m. the Ershlers reached the summit of Mount Everest and became the first couple to have climbed the Seven Summits together. Ershler then started Ershler International, a business in
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Very difficult." The rescue efforts were recounted by Jon Krakauer in his account of the disaster, "Into Thin Air". In addition to his work as climbing sirdar on Everest, Ang Dorje has also worked as a mountain guide on Everest, as well as Aconcagua, Mount Rainier, Kilimanjaro,and Island Peak. He first guided Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, in 1984, when he climbed Mount Everest for the second time. As of 2017, Ang Dorje had reached the summit of Mount Everest 19 times since 1992 (in both spring and autumn, all via the
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the Yeti and the Girl Who Climbed Mount Everest", published by the WFP to promote the use of school meals to reduce child hunger. In 2009, Nimdoma and six of her Nepalese Sagarmatha Expedition teammates formed the Seven Summits Women Team, an all-female team whose goal is to climb the Seven Summits, the highest mountains of each continent. In addition to Nimdoma, the team members comprised Shailee Basnet, Pujan Acharya, Maya Gurung, Asha Kumari Singh, Pema Diki and Chunu Shrestha. Having already climbed Mount Everest, the team began their mission in 2010 with successful ascents of Mount Kosciuszko (Australia) and
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Himalaya". Moreover, he was able to ascend all of these mountains without the use of supplemental oxygen, which made him the world's 15th person to accomplish this feat. Radek Jaroš Radek Jaroš (born 29 April 1964 in Nové Město na Moravě, Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic) is a Czech mountaineer and author. In 1998 he climbed his first eight-thousander Mount Everest in the second attempt via its north face. In 2001, 2003 and 2005 he unsuccessfully tried to climb the K2. In 2002, along with Martin Minařík he climbed Kanchenjunga as the first Czech. In 2006 announced he planned to conquer
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1938 British Mount Everest expedition Led by Bill Tilman, the 1938 British Mount Everest expedition was a low-key, low-cost expedition which was unlucky in encountering a very early monsoon. The weather conditions defeated the attempts to reach the summit. The North Col was climbed for the first time from the west and an altitude of was reached on the North Ridge. After the failure of the 1936 British Mount Everest expedition, the Mount Everest Committee decided not to make another public appeal for funds even after Tibet had approved an expedition for 1938. The press and public were no longer
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1924 British Mount Everest expedition The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was—after the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition—the second expedition with the goal of achieving the first ascent of Mount Everest. After two summit attempts in which Edward Norton set a world altitude record of 28,126 feet (8572m), the mountaineers George Mallory and Andrew "Sandy" Irvine disappeared on the third attempt. Their disappearance has given rise to the long-standing unanswered question of whether or not the pair climbed to the summit. Mallory's body was found in 1999 at 26,760 feet (8155 m), but the resulting clues did not provide conclusive
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participated in a number of Russian and international exhibitions. Fedor Konyukhov becomes the first priest of the Russian Orthodox Church to successfully climbed Mt. Everest. He took the icon of St. Nicholas to the Summit with him. 2015 - Global Ambassadors for Australia Zoo Wildlife Warriors. Konyukhov is the only person to have reached such extreme points of the planet as the North Pole (three times), the South Pole, the Pole of Inaccessibility in the Arctic Ocean and the top of Mount Everest (twice) and also sailed around the world via Cape Horn 4 times. In May 2008, Konyukhov completed
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Rex Pemberton Rex Pemberton (born 1983) is an extreme sport participant and motivational speaker, best known as being the youngest male Australian ever to climb Mount Everest. Born and raised in Sydney, Pemberton was educated at Knox Grammar School and the University of Western Sydney. He climbed his first alpine peak when he was 16. He raised $100,000 for his Everest climb and another $100,000 to fund his climbs of the remaining Seven Summits, which he completed in late 2006 and was the third youngest person in the world to complete this feat. He produced a documentary film of his
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Gold Medal from His Majesty the King of Nepal. Nawang Sherpa Nawang Sherpa became the first person to climb Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg by reaching the summit on May 16, 2004 (see Mount Everest Timeline and Trivia). He is also the first amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest on his first attempt, and the first disabled person from Asia to stand on the summit. Nawang, a trans-tibial amputee, is a native of Tapting in the Himalayan region of Solukhumbu in Nepal. He grew up with a love of mountains and a dream to climb Mount Everest
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Nawang Sherpa Nawang Sherpa became the first person to climb Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg by reaching the summit on May 16, 2004 (see Mount Everest Timeline and Trivia). He is also the first amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest on his first attempt, and the first disabled person from Asia to stand on the summit. Nawang, a trans-tibial amputee, is a native of Tapting in the Himalayan region of Solukhumbu in Nepal. He grew up with a love of mountains and a dream to climb Mount Everest some day. He had completed part of his training
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M. Moorthy M. Moorthy (Moorthy Maniam) (Tamil: மூர்த்தி மணியம்) , was a corporal in the Malaysian Army and a member of the first group of Malaysians to successfully climb Mount Everest. He was a Malaysian Indian born and raised Hindu. Moorthy joined the armed forces in 1988. He was one of ten people in the Malaysia Everest 1997 team among whom two members, M. Magendran and N. Mohanadas, became the first Malaysians who climbed to the summit of Mount Everest, reaching the peak on 23 May 1997. On 14 August of the following year, while at the Sungai Udang army
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Aconcagua, Argentina, the highest peak in South America. In spring 2006 she climbed Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain. At 11 a.m. on October 18, 2006, DesLauriers pushed off of the summit of Mount Everest and made history as the first person to ski from the summit of the Seven Summits - the highest mountains on all seven continents. DesLauriers and her husband, Rob DesLauriers, met in 1999 while on a mountaineering trip to Mount Belukha in Siberia. The couple live in Teton Village, Wyoming, where she is a stonemason and runs landscape design company Rockit Corporation. DesLauriers also coaches other
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He became a middle-school teacher at Phoenix Country Day School, where he met his fellow teacher and future wife, Ellie Reeves. He also coached wrestling in Phoenix. Weihenmayer’s first big mountain was Denali, in 1995. In 2004, with Jeff Evans, Sabriye Tenberken and six blind Tibetan teenagers, he climbed on the north side of Everest to 21,500 feet, higher than any group of blind people have ever stood. A documentary based on the project, "Blindsight", was released in 2006. On May 25, 2001, Weihenmayer became the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. For this feat, he
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of Nanga Parbat. He has climbed Nanga Parbat four times. In January 2018 Ali Sadpara teamed up with Alex Txikon, a Spanish mountaineer, to summit the Mount Everest in winter without any supplemental oxygen. In June 2018 he has been enlisted by Marc Batard to undertake a five year program known as “Beyond Mount Everest”. They plan to summit Nanga Parabt, K-2 and Mount Everest in 2019, 2021 and 2022 respectively. Ali Sadpara Muhammad Ali Sadpara ( born 1972 ) is a Pakistani mountaineer. He is the first Pakistani and the first member of the mountaineer group to summit the
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on 12 May 2015, Dambar Parajuli, president of the Expedition Operators' Association of Nepal, said there were no climbers or Nepali sherpa guides remaining at Everest Base Camp. As a result, no one climbed Mount Everest in the spring of 2015, the first time in 41 years that this has happened. Casualties included: 2015 Mount Everest avalanches During the afternoon of 25 April 2015, a M 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal and surrounding countries. Shaking from the quake triggered an avalanche from Pumori into the basecamp on Mount Everest. At least twenty-two people were killed, surpassing an avalanche that occurred the
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in being grief-stricken, as many climbers connected with the Everest mountaineering community lost climbing buddies in two years of disasters. One who narrowly survived the disasters himself climbed this year to bring attention to the disease Lewy body dementia (DLB), which had affected his father. A one-eyed British war veteran rescued a woman from India who was in trouble on her descent. The climber, Leslie Binns, successfully rescued her and tried to save another from her ill-fated eleven-person expedition which suffered three fatalities. About 500 metres from the summit, which he could see with his one eye, he heard a
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Nazir Sabir Nazir Sabir Urdu: نذیر صابر is a Pakistani mountaineer. He was born in Hunza. He has climbed Mount Everest and four of the five 8000 m peaks in Pakistan, including the world's second highest mountain K2 in 1981, Gasherbrum II 8035m, Broad Peak 8050m in 1982, and Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak) 8068m in 1992. He became the first from Pakistan to have climbed Everest on 17 May 2000 as a team member on the Mountain Madness Everest Expedition led by Christine Boskoff from the United States that also included famed Everest climber Peter Habeler of Austria and eight
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22 hours and 29 minutes from the base camp on the south face. It is indicated as such in the Guinness Book as the first mountaineer to climb Everest in less than 24 hours. He is nicknamed the sprinter of Everest. He climbed four peaks over a period of nine months in 1988. He climbed four peaks over 8000 m without oxygen and also Dhaulagiri (8167 m) in winter. Batard led the expedition in which French mountaineer Christine Janin became the first French woman to summit the peak of Mount Everest. However, he reportedly ordered down a Sherpa woman Pasang
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on April 30, 1985. At the time, he was also the oldest person to have climbed Everest. Wells chose to forego further attempts at Everest and later died in a 1994 helicopter accident while returning from a ski trip in Nevada. He later co-wrote the book "Seven Summits" describing his achievement. Jon Krakauer's book "Into Thin Air" argues that Bass's ascent of Mount Everest pulled the mountain into a "postmodern era" wherein commercial guided expeditions became big business and encouraged climbers with limited experience to pay large sums of money to these enterprises in order to ascend Everest. Bass was
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the Everest climb. Larson was nominated for an ESPY Award in 2007 and was on the Dare To Explore chapter on the March 2008 issue of "National Geographic Kids". In 2009, she was also featured as one of Venus Zine’s “25 under 25” list for her climbing achievements. Samantha Larson Samantha Larson (born 1988) is an American mountain climber from Long Beach, California. On May 16, 2007, at the age of 18, she became temporarily the youngest non-Nepalese woman to summit Mount Everest. By reaching the top of Everest, she also became temporarily the youngest person to have climbed the
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2016, but the record is still registered in the name of Ratnesh Pandey on the official Guinness World Records. In August 2018, Pandey successfully climbed the Mount Elbrus peak (18,511 ft) twice, and hoisted the National flag of India and the flag of Sports and Youth Welfare Department of Madhya Pradesh on the eastern and western peaks of Mount Elbrus. He, along with Nihal Sarkar, represented India in the UIAA Ice Climbing World Cup 2017, held in Italy. Ratnesh Pandey Ratnesh Pandey (born 12 May 1985) is an Indian mountaineer, who climbed Mount Everest in 2016 and first in the
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Deepak Haldankar Deepak Haldankar (born 17 December 1947) is an Indian film director and cinematographer. He was the first Indian Director Cinematographer to shoot 35mm Eastmancolor films in Antarctica. The film "Exploration Antarctica" won an award at the Toulon Maritime film festival, France, in 1987. He covered two mount Everest expeditions1984&1985 and won national awards for Indian Mount Everest Expeditions in 1984 first Indian woman Bachendri Pal climbed Mount Everest&Pope Meets India (News Magazine N0 70.1987) Haldankar was born on 17 December 1947 at Dharwad, Karnatak State and brought up in Mumbai, India. He photographed his first films in 1970"The
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Indian Ocean to Everest's south side. During the winter the west-southwest flowing jet stream shifts south and blows on the peak. Because Mount Everest is the highest mountain in the world, it has attracted considerable attention and climbing attempts. A set of climbing routes has been established over several decades of climbing expeditions to the mountain. Whether the mountain was climbed in ancient times is unknown. It may have been climbed in 1924. Everest's first known summitting occurred by 1953, and interest by climbers increased. Despite the effort and attention poured into expeditions, only about 200 people had summitted by
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niche as a corporate motivational speaker. He was a featured climber in David Breashear's "Everest" IMAX film in 1996 He was portrayed by Clive Standen in the 2015 adventure film "Everest". Ed Viesturs Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is a high-altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker. He is the only American to have climbed all 14 of the world's eight-thousander mountain peaks, and the fifth person to do so without using supplemental oxygen. Along with Apa Sherpa, he has summitted peaks of over 8,000 meters on 21 occasions, including Mount Everest seven times; only four other climbers, Phurba Tashi Sherpa
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Inyo County. There are several routes typically used to climb Mount Irvine. The southeast slope, reached from Richins Pass, presents the most obvious route, but the mountain is often climbed in conjunction with Mount Mallory by way of a traverse. Mount Irvine (California) Mount Irvine is a mountain in the Sierra Nevada of California. The summit is in Inyo National Forest and the John Muir Wilderness. The peak was named in memory of Andrew Irvine, of the 1924 British Mount Everest expedition, who perished on Mount Everest, June, 1924. Norman Clyde proposed Irvine's and George H. Leigh Mallory's names following
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Lance Metz Lance Metz is 27 years old (as of May 2010) and is now officially the youngest South African and person from the African continent to summit Carstensz Pyramid in Indonesia and Mount Vinson in Antarctica. On 24 May 2010 Lance Metz became the youngest South African to summit the North Ridge of Mount Everest. Lance is one of only two South Africans to have ever climbed over 8000m without the use of supplemental oxygen. Metz's mountaineering experience includes: In July 2011 Lance Metz together with Varsity College, Johannesburg, South Africa, broke a world record to become the first
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first person to climb all the eight peaks on both lists ("Bass" and "Messner"). Morrow has other high altitude mountaineering achievements, and in 1987, he was made a Member of the Order of Canada for "exploits [that] have carried him into the top ranks of international mountaineering". Professionally Morrow was a still photographer until about 2001 when he transitioned to video. Patrick Morrow Patrick Allan Morrow, (born October 18, 1952 in Invermere, British Columbia) is a Canadian photographer and mountain climber. In 1986 he was the first person to climb the Seven Summits in the "Carstensz-Version". Morrow climbed Mount Everest,
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1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition The 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces. In the post-monsoon season Chris Bonington led the expedition which used rock climbing techniques to put fixed ropes up the face from the Western Cwm to just below the South Summit. A key aspect of the success of the climb was the scaling of the cliffs of the Rock Band at about by Nick Estcourt and Tut Braithwaite. Two teams then climbed to the South Summit and followed the Southeast Ridge
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were never found. A South Korean expedition climbed the route in 1995. However, on either side of the face (and so possibly to be included in its scope) are the South Pillar and Central Pillar and these have been successfully used as climbing routes several times starting in 1980 and 1982 for the two routes respectively. In 1980 there was an ascent of Everest by a full North Face route; a Kangshung Face route was achieved in 1983. 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition The 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount
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Susan Ershler Susan Ershler (born March 1957) is a public speaker, business executive, climber of Mount Everest, and author. Ershler and her husband, Phil, are the first couple to have climbed together the highest mountain on each continent, known as the "Seven Summits". Completion of the Seven Summits endeavor came on May 16, 2002 when Ershler and her husband reached the summit of Mount Everest. Ershler is the 4th American Woman to climb the Seven Summits and the 12th American Woman to climb Mount Everest. Born in Portland, Oregon, Ershler moved with her family to Seattle, Washington in 1971. She
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Kami Rita Sherpa Kami Rita Sherpa born 1970 is a Nepali Sherpa guide who achieved the record for most ascents to the summit of Mount Everest after reaching it for a 22nd time in May 2018 at the age of 48. His father was one of the first professional Sherpa guides. In 2017, Kami was the third person to ascend to the summit of Everest 21 times along with Apa Sherpa and Phurba Tashi Sherpa. In May 2018, Kami Sherpa became the first person in the world to climb Mount Everest 22 times. He holds the record of the most
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the fossil-bearing limestone that crowns Mount Everest, the nature and impact of ice in the region (such as the icefall), and the overall stratigraphy (including limestone, metamorphic rocks, pelites, and quartzites). In May, Tamae Watanabe became the oldest woman to reach the summit, at the age of 73. She broke her own record, set in 2002 at the age of 63. The retired office worker lives at the base of Mount Fuji, and had climbed many other peaks including Denali, the Eiger, and Lhotse. She climbed with a group of four, and beat a competing 72-year-old woman who was trying
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Ang Dorje Sherpa Ang Dorje (Chhuldim) Sherpa (born 1970) is a Nepali sherpa mountaineering guide, climber and porter from Pangboche, Nepal, who has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest 19 times. He was the climbing Sirdar for Rob Hall's Adventure Consultants expedition to Everest in spring 1996, when a freak storm led to the deaths of eight climbers from several expeditions, considered one of the worst disasters in the history of Everest mountaineering. Ang Dorje was born in 1970, in upper Pangboche, Nepal, near the Khumbu Valley as it passes down the slopes of Mount Everest. He grew up
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Jozef Psotka Jozef Psotka, (12 February 1934, Košice, Czechoslovakia – , Mount Everest, Himalayas, Nepal) was a Slovak mountaineer, at that time the oldest person in the world who reached the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen. He attended a high school in Košice, Czechoslovakia, and graduated in 1953. He had a lifetime passion for mountaineering, climbing Matterhorn and Kangchenjunga among other peaks. On October 15, 1984, he reached the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen with Zoltán Demján and Sherpa Ang Rita. Together with Zoltan Demján he was the first Slovak climber who reached the summit of Mount Everest.
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2016 achieving his sixth summiting of Everest. David Liaño Gonzalez David Liaño González (born December 19, 1979) is the first mountaineer to double summit on Mount Everest from both the Nepal and Tibet sides, which he has climbed six times so far. He has climbed both versions of the Seven Summits Liaño Gonzalez has also lived in Seattle, Washington in the United States where he is also known as David Liano. When he brought a fan flag of a Seattle sports team to the summit of Everest in 2016, it made news stories across that country. Liaño González was born
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Chhurim Chhurim is a Nepali mountaineer and the first woman to climb Mount Everest twice in the same season, a feat which was verified by the "Guinness Book of World Records" in 2013. She accomplished this feat in 2012, climbing Everest on May 12 and May 19 of that year. "People have set different kinds of climbing records in Everest," said Chhurim, sitting on her living room couch directly beneath a string of certificates hung on the wall—the Guinness plaque included. "But no one has climbed twice within a week. So I just climbed with the sole motive of making
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Ian Woodall Ian Woodall (born 17 August 1956) is a British mountain climber who has climbed Mount Everest several times. In 1996 Woodall was the leader of the controversial first South African Mount Everest expedition, during which one member of the party died. The expedition reached Camp IV – the last camp before the summit, and 923m below it – on 10 May, but were not directly involved in the disaster that unfolded that day. Following the tragedy the expedition returned to base camp and made a second attempt after a few days rest, achieving the summit on 28 May.
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of 73, again scaled Mount Everest. Tamae Watanabe Tamae Watanabe (Japanese , "Watanabe Tamae"; born 21 November 1938 Yamanashi Prefecture) is a Japanese mountain climber. After completing study at Tsuru University she worked as public office employee of Kanagawa Prefecture. It was at this time, at age 28, she began mountain climbing. In 1977 she climbed Mount McKinley. She then climbed Mont Blanc, Mount Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua. After her retirement she returned to her hometown and in May 2002 she became the then oldest woman to climb Mount Everest. Ten years later, in May 2012, she broke her own record,
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the expedition, assisted by an advisory sub-committee of Norton, T. G. Longstaff and Sydney Spencer, with Geoffrey Winthrop Young also giving assistance. Ruttledge was keen on inviting Mount Everest veterans; neither Noel Odell nor T. H. Somervell were available, but Edward Shebbeare, who had been transport officer in 1924, was again selected in the role, this time also being appointed deputy leader – at forty-nine, he was the oldest member of the expedition; Crawford had also been to Mount Everest, in 1922. Other members of the party had previous Himalayan experience, too, in particular Shipton, who had climbed Kamet (as
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the Dalai Llama did not respond to requests and then in 1950 Tibetan borders were firmly closed with the occupation of Tibet by China. So, post-war British Everest attempts would be from Nepal to the south. 1938 British Mount Everest expedition Led by Bill Tilman, the 1938 British Mount Everest expedition was a low-key, low-cost expedition which was unlucky in encountering a very early monsoon. The weather conditions defeated the attempts to reach the summit. The North Col was climbed for the first time from the west and an altitude of was reached on the North Ridge. After the failure
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Lhakpa Sherpa Lhakpa Sherpa (also Lakpa) (born 1973) is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber. She has climbed Mount Everest nine times, the most of any woman in the world. In 2000, she became the first Nepalese woman to climb and descend Everest successfully. Sherpa grew up in Makalu, Nepal as one of 11 children. In 2000 she was the leader of an expedition sponsored by Asian Trekking. On September 18, 2000 she became the first Nepali woman to summit Mount Everest and survive (see also Pasang Lhamu Sherpa). This climb was with the Nepali Women Millennium Expedition. In 2003, the
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where he reached the highest point in Europe, by summiting Mount Elbrus. In July 2009, he climbed the highest mountain in North America, Denali, before attempting Mount Everest the following year. Geordie got to within 150 m of the summit before turning around. He was heavily delayed on the ascent after helping a Sherpa and two teammates who were all suffering from severe altitude sickness. After returning to the UK, he decided to make another attempt on Everest in 2011 and make it the final mountain of the challenge. Over Christmas 2010, he climbed Vinson Massif in Antarctica, before completing
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Kushang Sherpa Kushang Sherpa (; born 15 Feb 1965) is an Indian mountaineer, who in 1998 became the first person to reach the summit of Mount Everest from three sides. Kushang Sherpa was born on 15 February 1965 in a village in the Himalayas named Walung near Makalu base, Nepal. He ran away from home the first time at the age of 14 to work as a porter on an expedition that was passing through his village. He is the first person to have summited Mount Everest from three points of the compass. Kushang Dorjee Sherpa is from Makalu originally,
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Matt Moniz Matt Moniz Born in February 1998 is an American mountaineer and speaker noted for his ascents of 8,000 meter peaks and several of the Seven Summits. In 2007, Moniz climbed to the Mount Everest Base Camp. It was Moniz's first experience with hiking and scaling a mountain. In 2008, following the Nepal trek Moniz summitted Mount Elbrus, the highest peak in Europe. Moniz then climbed to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro with his twin sister Kaylee at the age of 10, accompanied by their parents. He also climbed to the summit of Aconcagua, the highest summit in the
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in mountains while living in Banff, Alberta in 1969. Later the same year, he went to Nepal and hiked alone for 32 days from Kathmandu to the Khumbu Glacier at the foot of Mount Everest. This experience motivated him to return and climb Mount Everest. Between 2006 and 2014, Fairhurst completed the Seven Summits achievement by climbingAconcagua, Denali, the Vinson Massif, Mount Everest, Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Elbrus, the Carstensz Pyramid, and Mount Kosciuszko. He has also climbed Cho Oyu and Mont Blanc. Fairhurst’s video Mount Everest ICE FALL.wmv has gone viral on YouTube with over 2.6 million views to date.
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2008, mother and daughter successfully climbed Mount Elbrus (Russia), Mount McKinley (United States), Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Aconcagua (Argentina), Vinson Massif (Antarctica), and Mount Kosciuszko (Australia). In May 2008, when they reached the summit of Mount Everest (Nepal), they became the first mother-daughter duo to have done so. Their Everest ascent also marked their completion of the Seven Summits, also making them the first mother and daughter to have completed the challenge. At the time, Nikki was in her sixth and final year of studying medicine. In 2008, Nikki and Cheryl Bart were jointly awarded the "Australian Geographic" Spirit of Adventure
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about the 7 Summits. She is also the oldest woman to summit Mount Everest. On May 21, 2001 Anna summitted Lhotse, then Cho Oyu on September 25, 2001. Anna Czerwińska Anna Czerwińska (born July 10, 1949 in Warsaw) is a Polish mountaineer, known for being the oldest woman to Summit Mount Everest (at the time) at the age of 50 (born 7/10/49 climbed Everest from the Nepal side on 5/22/2000). She has also published several books about mountaineering. The first Polish woman to reach the Seven Summits. She is D.S. (Pharmacy) but she left medicine science for the mountains and
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Araceli Segarra Araceli Segarra (born March 1970 in Lleida, Spain) is the first Spanish woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest. She has also climbed Broad Peak (Attempt, 1991), Kanchenjunga (Attempts, 2001 and 2005), Shishapangma (Summit, 1992), and K2 (Attempt, 2002), among others. Segarra has a degree in Physiotherapy. She became interested in mountain sports at age 15 when taking a spelunking course; she also enjoys randonee skiing, rock climbing, and ice climbing. In 1996, while being filmed for the IMAX documentary, "EVEREST" (1998), she participated on the rescue team during the May 1996 Mount Everest disaster and
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Gary Ball Gary Ball was a New Zealand mountain climber who died in 1993. He summited Mount Everest twice, in 1990 and 1992 Ball was a New Zealand Antarctic Division field guide and instructor in survival training at Scott Base in 1976–77 and a field guide in northern Victoria Land for the GANOVEX expedition in 1979–80. He also climbed Aoraki (Mt Cook) 26 times, at that time a record. In 1989 Gary Ball tried unsuccessfully to climb Mount Everest. In 1990 Gary Ball summited Mount Everest with Peter Hillary and Rob Hall. They made a call from the summit to
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television shows, "to do something" with her life. She excelled in the basic mountaineering course from the Nehru Institute of Mountaineering, Uttarkashi, and was encouraged by her elder brother Omprakash to climb Everest. She climbed Mt Everest with a prosthetic leg, which was arranged by raising funds with the help of a swami of Ramakrishna Mission, Vadodara. She contacted Bachendri Pal, the first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest, in 2011 by telephone and signed up for training under her at the Uttarkashi camp of the Tata Steel Adventure Foundation (TSAF) 2012. Sinha climbed Island Peak (6150 metres) in 2012
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group found mountain communities that rely on subsistence farming were suffering the effects of climate change. Apa Sherpa Apa (born Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa; 20 January 1960), nicknamed "Super Sherpa", is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who, jointly with Phurba Tashionce held the record for reaching the summit of Mount Everest more times than any other person. As part of The Eco Everest Expedition 2011, Apa made his 21st Mount Everest summit in May 2011 then retired after a promise to his wife to stop climbing after 21 ascents. He first summited Everest in 1990 and his last time to the summit
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Apa Sherpa Apa (born Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa; 20 January 1960), nicknamed "Super Sherpa", is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who, jointly with Phurba Tashionce held the record for reaching the summit of Mount Everest more times than any other person. As part of The Eco Everest Expedition 2011, Apa made his 21st Mount Everest summit in May 2011 then retired after a promise to his wife to stop climbing after 21 ascents. He first summited Everest in 1990 and his last time to the summit was in 2011. Apa met Edmund Hillary many times, and was on the Expedition with his
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