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First man to summit twice 2 Nawang Gombu India 1963, 1965 [25] [26] [27] First woman to summit twice 2 Santosh Yadav India 1992, 1993 [28] First man to summit three times 3 by 1982 Sungdare Sherpa Nepal [29] First woman to summit three times 3 by 2003 Lhakpa Sherpa Nepal [30] First man to summit 4 times 4 by 1985 Sungdare Sherpa Nepal
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 ...
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]
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.
Subsequently, he attempted Everest through the S Col-SE Ridge route and on 22 May 1965, [15] he reached the summit at the age of 42 as a member of the first all-Indian Everest expedition, [16] thus becoming the first person from Sikkim and the oldest person among all mountaineers to summit the peak. [17]
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.
Sherpa was the first person to reach the summit of Everest in winter without supplementary oxygen, a feat he achieved in 1987. He was also the first person to climb Everest 10 times. [ 7 ] He was recognised by the Guinness World Records in 2017 as the only person in the world to have climbed Mount Everest 10 times without bottled oxygen, a ...
Schmatz was on an expedition via the South East Ridge route with her husband, Gerhard Schmatz, when she died at 8,300 metres (27,200 ft). Gerhard Schmatz was the expedition leader, then 50 years of age, and the oldest man to summit Everest. On the same expedition was the American Ray Genet, who also