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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.
Seven Summit Treks is a commercial adventure operator established in 2010 based in Kathmandu, Nepal. They specialize in expedition climbing trips to the eight-thousanders of Nepal, China, and Pakistan. [6] The company was established by four Sherpa brothers, [7] Mingma Sherpa, Chhang Dawa Sherpa, Tashi Lakpa Sherpa and Pasang Phurba
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 ...
In April 2017, she launched an expedition to Mount Everest, her second to last peak for the seven summits. On May 21 at 9 in the morning, she reached the summit, becoming the first Moroccan and North African woman to do so. [15] [16] In December 2018, she reached the summit of Antarctica's Mount Vinson, her final peak to complete all seven summits.
Silvia Vasquez Lavado, Antarctica January 2016. Silvia Vasquez-Lavado (born 1974) is a Peruvian-American mountaineer, author, social entrepreneur and technologist. In June 2016, she became the first Peruvian woman to summit Mount Everest and the first openly gay woman to complete the Seven Summits, the tallest mountain on each continent from both the Messner and Bass lists.
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.
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 ...