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Theodore Fairhurst (born April 18, 1947) is a Canadian entrepreneur, high-altitude mountaineer, author and public speaker. On December 9, 2018, at the age of 71 years and 231 days, Fairhurst became the oldest person in the world, 1st North American, and 9th person in history to have scaled all the Seven Summits and Volcanic Seven Summits.
Michael Hamill, (born July 19, 1977) is an American high altitude mountaineering guide, alpine climber, mountaineering media personality and alpine author predominately with respect to the Seven Summits. He was a featured athlete/guide in the Discovery Channel 2008 reality/documentary production, Everest: Beyond the Limits.
The Explorer's Grand Slam is an adventurer goal to reach the North Pole and South Pole, as well as climb the Seven Summits (Everest, Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Vinson, and Puncak Jaya or Kosciuszko). The Ultimate Explorer's Grand Slam includes this, plus visiting every country in the world.
He then co-authored the book Seven Summits, which covered the undertaking. [29] [26] Later in 1985, American mountaineer Gerry Roach became the second person to climb the Seven Summits. [30] In 1986, the Canadian mountaineer Patrick Morrow became the first man to climb the Seven Summits in the Carstensz version (Messner list). He climbed Denali ...
Richard Daniel "Dick" Bass (December 21, 1929 – July 26, 2015) was an American businessman, rancher and mountaineer. He was the owner of Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah and the first man to climb the "Seven Summits", the tallest mountain on each continent.
On May 21, 2013, he reached the summit of Mount Everest in Nepal, guided by New Zealand climber Lydia Bradey, the first woman to summit Everest without using supplemental oxygen. Crane's successful ascent of Denali in July 2013 at the age of 20 marked his completion of the Seven Summits, [11] making him the first openly gay man to have done so ...
Wells was an avid alpinist and came close to achieving his goal of climbing the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on each of the seven continents: Kilimanjaro in Africa; Denali (Mount McKinley) in North America; Aconcagua in South America; Elbrus in Europe; Mount Everest in Asia; Mount Kosciuszko in Australia; Vinson in Antarctica
Vernon Tejas (USA) set a new speed record of the Seven Summits following the combined Kosciuszko and Carstensz lists of summits. Tejas began his record attempt with Vinson Massif on 18 January 2010 and after ascents on Aconcagua, Carstensz Pyramid, Kosciuszko, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus and Everest, reached the top of the last summit, Mt. McKinley on ...