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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]
Prior to this the oldest was Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who at 71 summited on 22 May 2007. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In this period, Nepal enacted a minimum age limit of 16 years old (there was no maximum), and a 2005 study found Everest climbers over age 60 had about a 1 in 10 chance of summiting compared to 1 in 3 chance compared to those under 60. [ 9 ]
Many Mount Everest records are held by Nepali, especially those from the Sherpa region. On 11 May 2011, Apa Sherpa successfully reached the summit of Everest for the twenty-first time, breaking his own record for the most successful ascents. [138] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29. [139] Phurba Tashi Sherpa (also 21 times)
Sarkisov worked as a mentor for mountaineers in the Georgian Armed Forces before moving onto recreational climbing. [1]On 12 May 1999, Sarkisov became the oldest man to have reached the peak of Mount Everest at the age of 60 years and 161 days, breaking the previous record held by Venezuelan climber Ramón Balanca Suárez.
Mallory, climbing solo, established the first ascent of The Slab Climb on the East Buttress of Lliwedd, [161] now known as Mallory's Slab, at 220 ft (67 m), and graded 5.5. [160] [162] The ascent of The Slab Climb occurred due to Mallory scaling it to retrieve his pipe, which he had left behind on a ledge known as Bowling Green. [163]
Hannelore Schmatz (14 February 1940 – 2 October 1979) was a German climber and the fourth woman to summit Mount Everest.She collapsed and died as she was returning from summiting Everest via the southern route; Schmatz was the first woman and first German citizen to die on the upper slopes of Everest.
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.
The first Indian to climb the Everest seven times. [17] 2018 Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl: The oldest woman to climb the Everest. She climbed the summit at the age of 53 years. [18] [19] 23 May 2019 Ravindra Kumar The first Indian Administrative Service officer to climb the Everest UP cadre IAS officer, Ravindra Kumar, scales the Everest twice. [20 ...