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Youngest person to climb Mount Everest 13 years, 10 months, 10 days old Jordan Romero ... First person with Down's Syndrome to Everest Base Camp 15 years old
In 2008, the 76-year-old became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest. [1] He lost the record in 2013 to 80-year-old Japanese climber Yūichirō Miura . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Sherchan died at Everest Base Camp on 6 May 2017 while trying to reclaim his title.
Miura became the first person to ski on Mount Everest on May 6, 1970. Using a parachute to slow his descent, he skied down nearly 6,600 vertical feet from the South Col (elevation over 7,900 metres (25,900 ft), before falling for some 1,300 feet (400 m), and stopping just 250 feet (76 m) from plunging into the bergschrund at the upper reaches ...
In 1985, he became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, aged 55. [1] He climbed with David Breashears and Nepalese sherpa Ang Phurba, surpassing the record by five years set in April of that year by Englishman Chris Bonington. [1] [2] Bass's record stood until 1993 when it was broken by 60-year-old Ramon Blanco. [2]
Bonington briefly became the oldest person to summit Mount Everest in April 1985, at the age of 50. [19] He was surpassed by Richard Bass of Seven Summits fame, who summited later that same season at 55. [ 19 ]
He was the 2nd Indian man, the 17th man in world and first person from Sikkim to summit Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. [2] [3] He was one of the nine summiters of the first successful Indian Everest Expeditions that climbed Mount Everest in May 1965 led by Captain M S Kohli.
Ang Rita Sherpa (Nepali: आङरिता शेर्पा; 27 July 1948 [1] – 21 September 2020) was a Nepalese mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest ten times without using 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.
George Herbert Leigh-Mallory (18 June 1886 – 8 or 9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British Mount Everest expeditions in the early 1920s.