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Mingma Gyabu Sherpa (also known as Mingma David, born 16 May 1989), is a Nepalese mountaineer and rescue climber. [1] [3] [2] He was until 2024 [4] the youngest person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, [5] [6] and holds the Guinness World Record for "Fastest time to climb Everest and K2", which he did within 61 days.
Nirmal Purja (known as Nims or Nimsdai [14]) MBE (Nepali: निर्मल पुर्जा; born 25 July 1983 [1]) is a Nepal-born naturalised British [4] mountaineer.Prior to taking on a career in mountaineering, he served in the British Army with the Brigade of Gurkhas followed by the Special Boat Service (SBS), the special forces unit of the Royal Navy.
Mingma Sherpa- Nepali: मिङ्मा शेर्पा (born June 16, 1978) is a Nepali mountaineer from Makalu Village, which is located in Sankhuwasabha district of Nepal. [1] On May 20, 2011, Mingma Sherpa became the first person from Nepal [2] and the first South Asian [3] to scale all 14 eight thousanders. He also set a new world ...
Dipankar Ghosh was an Indian mountaineer from West Bengal. [1] He is the first Bengali to climb Mount Everest [2] and had successfully climbed five other eight-thousand-meter peaks besides Mount Everest.
Choudhary is a trained mountaineer and polar explorer. Among his notable achievements are: Mount Everest (8,848.86 m): Neeraj successfully summited the world's highest peak in 31 May 2021 as part of an expedition organized by the Indian Mountaineering Foundation, under the aegis of Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports, Govt of India, shortly after recovering from COVID-19.
Naila Kiani (Urdu: نائلہ کیانی); is the leading Pakistani female high altitude mountaineer. [1] Kiani is the first Pakistani woman & overall third Pakistani to climb 11 of the 14 highest peaks above 8,000-metres.
Hari Budha Magar MBE is a Nepalese double above-knee amputee and record-breaking mountaineer.In 2017, he became the first double above-knee amputee (DAK) to summit a mountain taller than 6,000m (Mera Peak, 6,476m). [1]
Gau Ming-Ho (Chinese: 高銘和; pinyin: Gāo Mínghé; born 1949), also known as Makalu Gau after the 5th highest peak in the world, is a Taiwanese mountaineer. He was a leader of a Taiwanese expedition to Mount Everest during the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.