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Ang Rita Sherpa (Nepali: आङरिता शेर्पा; 27 July 1948 [1] – 21 September 2020) was a Nepalese mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest ten times without supplemental oxygen between 1983 and 1996. His sixth climb set the world record for the most successful ascents of Mount Everest, which he re-set on his tenth climb.
Mount Everest north face. On 8 May 1978, Messner and Habeler reached the summit of Mount Everest, becoming the first men to climb it without using supplemental oxygen. Before this ascent, it was disputed whether this was possible at all.
Lars Olof Göran Kropp (11 December 1966 – 30 September 2002) was a Swedish mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support on 23 May 1996, after traveling there from Sweden by bicycle and foot.
Climbing from the north side, as Ballinger does, avoids the huge crowds who flock to the southern base camp from all over the world every May, the prime climbing season on Everest, to wait for a ...
High-altitude climbing usually requires the use of portable oxygen apparatus when climbing Mount Everest or the other eight-thousanders, though some mountaineers—and alpine style climbers in particular—have deliberately ascended Everest without oxygen (e.g. starting with Reinhold Messner in 1978).
Everest, Denali, Elbrus, Kilimanjaro Aconcagua, Vinson and Kosciuszko. [2] Tashi Lakpa Sherpa is a Guinness World Records holder titled "The youngest person to climb Everest without using supplemental oxygen". In 2005 at the age of 19 Sherpa climbed the highest peak without using supplementary oxygen. [3]
As part of his preparation for the Mt. Everest expedition, Graham Cooper spent months sleeping in a hypoxic tent that slowly lowers the oxygen level to mimic conditions at extreme altitude.
In September 2022, Sadpara climbed the world's 8th highest peak — the 8,163-metre Manaslu — in Nepal without the aid of supplemental oxygen. [ 7 ] In April 2023, Sadpara became the first Pakistani to climb the 8,091-metre tall Annapurna mountain in Nepal — the world's 10th highest peak — without the support of supplemental oxygen as a ...