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Solo ascent of Mount Everest Lars Olof Göran Kropp (11 December 1966 – 30 September 2002) was a Swedish mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support on 23 May 1996, after traveling there from Sweden by bicycle and foot.
First solo ascent of Mount Everest and first ascent without supplemental oxygen Reinhold Andreas Messner ( German: [ˈʁaɪnhɔlt ˈmɛsnɐ] ; born 17 September 1944) is an Italian climber , explorer, and author from the German-speaking province of South Tyrol .
Fastest ascent from Everest South Base Camp with supplemental oxygen 10 hours 56 min and 46 sec Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa Nepal May 26, 2003 [40] Fastest ascent without supplemental oxygen and fastest ascent from Everest North Base Camp: 16 hours and 45 minutes Hans Kammerlander Italy May 24, 1996 [41] Longest stay on the summit 21 hours Babu Chiri Sherpa
Szilárd Suhajda (June 29, 1982 – disappeared May 25–26, 2023) was a Hungarian mountaineer known for his ascents of eight-thousanders without supplementary oxygen. During his climbing career, he successfully summited Broad Peak, K2 (solo), and Lhotse, and was lost during a solo climb on Mount Everest.
North face of the Eiger. Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountaineer.Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995.
The lack of oxygen poses one of greatest threats to climbers who attempt to summit, with levels dropping to less than 40% when they reach the Everest “death zone.”
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 ten times without bottled oxygen, a ...
This year was Lama’s second-ever Everest ascent. Currently, the record for fastest ascent by a male climber is 10 hours and 56 minutes, set by Nepali Lhakpa Gelu Sherpa in 2003.