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Many Mount Everest records are held by Nepali, especially those from the Sherpa region. On 11 May 2011, Apa Sherpa successfully reached the summit of Everest for the twenty-first time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents. [135] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29. [136] Phurba Tashi Sherpa (also 21 times)
2010. May 17 – Gregory Attard - a medical doctor working at Saint James Hospital, Malta, Marco Cremona, and Robert Gatt became the first persons from Malta to summit. [189] May 20 – Đorđije Vujičić, Dragutin Vujović, and Marko Blečić became the first persons from Montenegro to summit Mt Everest.
[4] [5] After the successful summit of Mount Everest, Sports Board Punjab made him the youth ambassador of Punjab, Pakistan. [6] He summited Broad Peak at the age of 17, after which he was called 'The Broad Boy'. He currently holds two Guinness World Records for being the youngest to climb K2 and the youngest to climb Broad Peak. [7]
The Polish climber Andrzej Zawada headed the first winter ascent of Mount Everest, the first winter ascent of an eight-thousander. The team of 20 Polish climbers and 4 Sherpas established a base camp on Khumbu Glacier in early January 1980. On 15 January, the team managed to set up Camp III at 7150 metres above sea level, but further action was ...
Cheema, and Nawang Gombu Sherpa climbed the peak and became the first Indian to achieve this feat. This was the second time that Nawang Gombu Sherpa climbed Mount Everest. The first was with American Expedition in 1963. Tenzing Norgay, the first man to climb Mount Everest, was his uncle.
List of Mount Everest summiters by frequency. This list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once. By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people. [1][2] By the end of 2016 there were 7,646 summits by 4,469 people. [3] In 2018 about 800 people summited, breaking the record for most in one year compared ...
First Gujarati sisters to climb Mount Everest, Aditi Vaidya (25 yrs.) and Anuja Vaidya (21 yrs.) Reached the top on 22 May 2019. They are from Surat. [8] Love Raj Singh Dharmshaktu - climbed Mount Everest seven times. In 1984, Bachendri Pal became the first Indian woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest [9][10]
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, [2] Broad Peak 8050m in 1982, [3] and Gasherbrum I (Hidden Peak) 8068m in 1992. [4]