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Tenzing Norgay was older than his climbing partner Sir Edmund Hillary, as the first confirmed climbers to reach the summit, they became the modern-day starting point for the oldest and youngest climbers respectively. This table shows the progression of the record for oldest female summiter.
Min Bahadur Sherchan (20 June 1931 – 6 May 2017) was a Nepalese climber and former British Gurkha soldier. 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 ...
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]
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. He was officially recognized by the Guinness World Records as the oldest mountaineer to have ever scaled the mountain.
May 26- Gjergj Bojaxhi, 38, became the first Albanian to climb Everest. Tamae Watanabe breaks her own record as the oldest female summiteer, on 19 May at age 73 years and 180 days. [40] She reached the summit from the north side. [137] Wilfred Moshi becomes the first Tanzanian to summit Everest on May 25, 2012.
Yasuko Namba, Mt. Everest, May 1996. On May 10, 1996, the 47-year-old Namba reached the summit of Everest, becoming the oldest woman to do so (her record was later broken by Anna Czerwińska of Poland who summited Everest at age 50). She was still high on the mountain rather late into the afternoon, and was descending when a blizzard struck.
On 17 May 2011, she became the oldest Indian woman to have scaled the world's tallest peak, Mount Everest (29,032 ft.); at the age of 48 years at that time while Sangeeta Sindhi Bahl hailing from Jammu and Kashmir broke Premlata's record on 19 May 2018 and became the oldest Indian woman to climb Mount Everest at the age of 53. [4] [5] [6]
Apa (born Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa; 20 January 1960), [1] nicknamed "Super Sherpa", [2] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who, until 2017, jointly with Phurba Tashi held the record for reaching the summit of Mount Everest more times than any other climber. As part of The Eco Everest Expedition 2011, Apa made his 21st Mount Everest summit in May ...