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From Kala Patthar, west of Everest looking the South West face primarily Mount Everest from Gokyo Ri, showing a little more of the North face Tashi and Nungshi were the first twins to summit Mount Everest together. This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", meaning ...
Clare O'Leary (born 1972) Ireland, first Irish woman to climb Mount Everest (2004) Adam Ondra (born 1993) Czech Republic, first to redpoint a 9c; Dan Osman (1963–1998) US, rock climber, soloist, killed whilst attempting his new sport of rope jumping; James Outram (1864–1925) Canada, first ascent of Mount Assiniboine
A post-card of Everest from the 1920s, the view from Rongbuk glacier (north side) Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain at 8,848.86 metres (29,031.7 ft) and thus a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century.
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 to 2013, in which 667 summited Mount Everest ...
The first Indian woman to climb Mount Everest. [2] 10 May 1993 Santosh Yadav: The first woman to climb Mount Everest twice. She climbed to the summit for the second time and became the first woman in the world to ever climb Mount Everest twice. Her first summit was in 1992 as part of the Indo-Tibetan Border Police Expedition to Mount Everest [3]
The closest sea to Mount Everest's summit is the Bay of Bengal, almost 700 km (430 mi) away. To approximate a climb of the entire height of Mount Everest, one would need to start from this coastline, a feat accomplished by Tim Macartney-Snape's team in 1990. Climbers usually begin their ascent from base camps above 5,000 m (16,404 ft).
Lhakpa Sherpa (Nepali: Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) [1] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber.She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most by any woman in the world. [2] [3] Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. [4]
People from the United States (i.e. Americans) who have reached the summit of Mount Everest. Pages in category "American summiters of Mount Everest" The following 58 pages are in this category, out of 58 total.