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மகேந்திரன்) born Magendran M. Munisamy[12] on 6 December 1963 [8] in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) is the first Malaysian mountain climber to conquer the summit of Mount Everest. [13][14] Magendran's party ascended the South Col on the southeast ridge. [12] He stepped onto Everest's summit on 23 May 1997, at 11:55 a.m. local time.
Dave MacLeod (born 1978) Scotland, made the first free ascent of the world's first E11 traditional climbing route. M. Magendran (born 1963) Malaysia, Everest (1997), first Malaysian/Tamil to reach the summit. Nasuh Mahruki (born 1968) Turkey, Snow Leopard, first Turkish and Muslim climber of Everest.
On April 18, 2014, 16 Sherpas were killed in an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall. [ 11 ][ 12 ][ 13 ] On April 25, 2015, 19 people—the most ever in a single day on Everest—were killed in an avalanche at base camp after a 7.8 earthquake, which killed more than 9,000 people and injured more than 23,000 in Nepal. [ 14 ][ 15 ][ 16 ] During the ...
List of Mount Everest summiters by frequency. This list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once. By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people. [1][2] By the end of 2016 there were 7,646 summits by 4,469 people. [3] In 2018 about 800 people summited, breaking the record for most in one year compared ...
Indonesia Seven Summits Expedition. The Indonesian Seven Summits Expedition Mahitala Unpar (ISSEMU) was a team of four mountaineers from Indonesia that successfully climbed the Seven Summits (the Messner version) between 2009 and 2011. [1] The last peak of their expedition was Denali in Alaska, which they reached on July 7, 2011.
The 1924 British Mount Everest expedition was—after the 1922 British Mount Everest expedition —the 2nd expedition with the goal of achieving the first ascent of Mount Everest. [ 1 ]: 1 After two summit attempts in which Edward Norton set a world altitude record of 8,572.8 metres (28,126 ft), [ 1 ]: 11 the mountaineers George Mallory and ...
He established a new route on the North Face. 1981 American Medical Expedition - South Pillar/South East Ridge. 1982 Russian Expedition - South West Pillar. 1982 Canadian Mount Everest Expedition [ 19 ] 1982 Japanese Japanese Winter Expedition - South East Ridge. 1983 German/American Expedition - South East Ridge.
Coordinates: 27°58′48″N 86°54′36″E. Mount Everest's Southwest Face. Nuptse obscures the view at the lower right. [note 1] The 1975 British Mount Everest Southwest Face expedition was the first to successfully climb Mount Everest by ascending one of its faces. In the post- monsoon season Chris Bonington led the expedition that used ...