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  2. Edmund Hillary - Wikipedia

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    Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist.On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest.

  3. Tenzing Norgay - Wikipedia

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    Norgay received his first opportunity to join an Everest expedition at age 20, when Eric Shipton was assembling the 1935 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition. After two other prospective team members failed their medical tests, Norgay was pushed forward by his friend Ang Tharkay , a Sherpa sirdar who had been on the 1933 British ...

  4. Jim Whittaker - Wikipedia

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    James W. Whittaker (born February 10, 1929), also known as Jim Whittaker, is an American climber and mountain guide. [1] [2] Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, on May 1, 1963, he became the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest as a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, alongside the Sherpa Nawang Gombu, a nephew of Tenzing Norgay.

  5. Reinhold Messner - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. Richard Bass - Wikipedia

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    Richard Daniel "Dick" Bass (December 21, 1929 – July 26, 2015) was an American businessman, rancher and mountaineer. He was the owner of Snowbird Ski Resort in Utah and the first man to climb the "Seven Summits", the tallest mountain on each continent.

  7. Last surviving member of the first team to conquer Mount ...

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    Kanchha was just a young man when he joined the Hillary-Tenzing expedition. He was among the three Sherpas to go to the last camp on Everest along with Hillary and Tenzing. They could not go any ...

  8. George Mallory - Wikipedia

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    St Wilfrid's Church, Mobberley, Cheshire, which Mallory climbed aged 7. George Herbert Leigh-Mallory was born at Newton Hall, Mobberley, Cheshire, on 18 June 1886, [1] [2] the first son and second child of the Reverend Herbert Leigh Mallory, [3] rector of the parish.

  9. Hristo Prodanov - Wikipedia

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    Prodanov was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest, [2] doing it via the most difficult way—the West Ridge—as well as alone and without oxygen. Prodanov was the first person to climb Everest in April, when the weather conditions are generally too bad for an expedition, and also the thirteenth person (first person from the West Ridge ...