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Jozef Psotka, (12 February 1934, Košice, Czechoslovakia – October 16, 1984 (aged 50), Mount Everest, Himalayas, Nepal) was a Slovak mountaineer, at that time the oldest person in the world to reach the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen.
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]
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. [133] He first climbed Mount Everest in 1989 at the age of 29. [134] Phurba Tashi Sherpa (also 21 times)
[2] [3] Sherchan died at Everest Base Camp on 6 May 2017 while trying to reclaim his title. [4] [5] In 2008 Min Bahadur Sherchan beat Yuichiro Miura to the top by one day, and Sherchan tried to summit again 2013 but had to call off his attempt due to health issues. [6] Prior to this the oldest was Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who at 71 summited on 22 ...
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.
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.
This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Everest between 1953 and the end of 2000. [1] After 2000, the number of climbers greatly increased when the peak became more accessible and more popular. By 2013, 6,871 summits had been recorded by 4,042 different people. [2]
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]