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Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.
May 18 – Wansuk Myrthong became the first woman from Meghalaya, India, to scale Mount Everest. [215] May 18 – Raha Moharrak, 25, of Saudi Arabia, became the first Saudi woman and youngest Arab to summit Mount Everest. [216] [217] May 19 – Samina Baig, 21, became the first Pakistani woman and the third Pakistani to scale Mount Everest ...
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. [133] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29. [134] Phurba Tashi Sherpa (also 21 times)
The first twins to scale Mount Everest. [5] 21 May 2013 Arunima Sinha: The first female amputee to scale Mount Everest. [6] 25 May 2014 Malavath Purna: The youngest girl to summit Mount Everest. She climbed the summit at the age of 13 years and 11 months. [7] [8] 16 - 21 May 2017 Anshu Jamsenpa: Scaled twice in one season.
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 ...
Country Date Male climber Date Female climber References Afghanistan 2023-05-17: Samuel Dean Sidiqi [1] [2] [3] [4] Albania 2012-05-26: Gjergj Bojaxhi [5]: 2017-05-22 ...
In 1992, Yadav scaled Mount Everest, when she was barely 20, becoming the youngest woman in the world to achieve this feat, a record which was broken by 13-year-old Purna, in 2014. [4] Within twelve months, she became a member of an Indo-Nepalese Women's expedition and scaled Everest the second time, thus setting the record as the first woman ...
Wing Commander Nirupama Pandey is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first person from Bihar to have scaled Mount Everest on 25 May 2011 at 1015 hrs (IST). [1] Nirupama was part of the first-ever all-woman IAF team comprising flight lieutenant Nivedita Choudhary and flight lieutenant Rajika Sharma.