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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)
The Discovery Channel was filming the Himex expedition for a documentary Everest: Beyond the Limit, including an HD camera carried by Whetu (that became unusable during the ascent due to the extreme cold) and helmet cameras for some of the Himex Sherpas, which included footage indicating that Sharp was only found by Inglis's group on their ...
In 2006, Discovery Channel launched a reality television series entitled Everest: Beyond the Limit. It is a multi-episode documentary that portrays the two-month expedition and the struggles, highs, lows, triumphs and despairs of 11 climbers aspiring to stand on the summit of the world's highest peak. Chaya was one of those climbers.
Mount Everest 8,848m – 22 May 2022. [42] Lhotse 8,516m – 22 May 2022 – World record for the fastest woman to summit Everest and Lhotse, 9 hours and 5min. [13] [43] Makalu 8,481m – 27 May 2022. [44] [45] Nanga Parbat 8,126m – 1 July 2022. K2 8,611m – 22 July 2022. [46] Broad Peak 8,051m – 28 July 2022. Gasherbrum II 8,035m – 8 ...
Russell Reginald Brice (born 3 July 1952) is a New Zealand mountaineer.He was the owner/manager of Himex (Himalayan Experience Ltd.), [1] a climbing expedition company. He has summited Cho Oyu seven times, Himal Chuli and Mount Everest twice, as well as Manaslu in October 2010, which was his 14th summit of an 8000 m peak.
Phurba Tashi retired from climbing Everest after the 2014 season. The "Everest Yak" as he is known, continued to have a presence at Everest Base Camp, as the head Sherpa for Himex. [25] In 2015, Phurba Tashi's life was greatly impacted by the 2015 earthquake that seriously affected his village of Khumjung. "Everything I worked for was destroyed ...
Everest: Beyond the Limit: 2006–2009 TV series Documentary Everest ER: 2006 Documentary BBC documentary about Everest ER: Everest: Kamigami no Itadaki (エヴェレスト 神々の山嶺 Everesuto Kamigami no Itadaki) 2016 Drama Everest: The Death Zone: 1998 Documentary [19] Produce by NOVA, narrated by Jodie Foster Extreme Everest: 2018 ...
The official logo of the Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb. The Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb was an expedition to reach the summit of Mount Everest during Earth Week 1990 led by Jim Whittaker, the first American to climb Mount Everest (in 1963), envisioned by Warren Thompson, and marked the first time in history that mountaineers from the United States, Soviet Union and China ...