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Record name Record Holder Nation Date Ref First climbers confirmed as having reached the summit Summited Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay New Zealand Nepal May 29, 1953 [22] [23] First woman to summit once Summited Junko Tabei Japan May 16, 1975 [24] First man to summit twice 2 Nawang Gombu India 1963, 1965 [25] [26] [27]
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 ...
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.
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]
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]
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.
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.
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 record he still holds in 2020. [2] Sherpa was considered by his peers to be the strongest and most skilled Sherpa guide of his time.