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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.
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 ...
Hamill is the owner of Climbing the Seven Summits (www.climbingthesevensummits.com), an alpine mountaineering media company, and has been a senior mountain guide at International Mountain Guides (Aug 26, 2002 – current) and Alaska Mountaineering School (May 10, 2003 – current) for 13 years.
The climbing community, the American Alpine Club, The Explorers Club, climbing companies such as International Mountain Guides, define the Explorer's Grand Slam as having accomplished the Seven Summits plus (at a minimum – the last degree of) the North and South Poles.
First person to climb Seven Summits 10 times. On 12 May 1992, Tejas was the youngest person (at the time) to ascend the Seven Summits. [30] Mount Everest, 11 guided summit ascents. Denali, 54 guided ascents, 1st solo winter ascent, 1st paraglider descent, 14:50 speed ascent.
The Seven Second Summits list follows the Seven Summits list from Richard Bass, [3] which uses Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m) to represent the Australian continent's highest summit. Reinhold Messner proposed another list (the Messner or Carstensz list), replacing Mount Kosciuszko with Western New Guinea's Carstensz Pyramid , which is part of ...
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
In August 2007 they climbed Carstensz Pyramid, thereby also completing the "Messner list" of the Seven Summits. [ 2 ] The Nepalese government said that she was the youngest foreigner ever to reach Everest's summit, but some climbing Web sites claim a 17-year-old boy from France did it in 1990. 15-year-old Ming Kipa from Nepal was the youngest ...