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On his third attempt, Bass was guided by David Breashears to the summit of Everest on April 30, 1985, achieving the Seven Summit feat. At the time, he was also the oldest person to have climbed Everest. Wells chose to forego further attempts at Everest and died in 1994. [4] Bass later co-wrote the book Seven Summits chronicling the achievement. [3]
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
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, [13] making him the first openly gay man to have done so ...
Caroline set out to climb the highest volcanoes in each of the seven continents on 1 January 2023 by summiting the highest Volcano in the world; Ojos Del Salado 6,893 meters (22,615 ft.) in Chile, followed by Mt Sidley 4,285 meters (14,058 ft.) the highest Volcano in Antarctica, [3] then Pico De Orizaba 5,636 meters (18,491 ft.) in Mexico.
Sandra Hill (born April 12, 1955, [1] formerly Sandra Hill Pittman) is a mountaineer, author, former fashion editor, and socialite.She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster shortly after becoming the 34th woman to reach the Mount Everest summit and the second American woman to climb the Seven Summits.