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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]
Prior to this the oldest was Katsusuke Yanagisawa, who at 71 summited on 22 May 2007. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] In this period, Nepal enacted a minimum age limit of 16 years old (there was no maximum), and a 2005 study found Everest climbers over age 60 had about a 1 in 10 chance of summiting compared to 1 in 3 chance compared to those under 60. [ 9 ]
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)
Jozef Psotka, (12 February 1934, Košice, Czechoslovakia – October 16, 1984 (aged 50), Mount Everest, Himalayas, Nepal) was a Slovak mountaineer, at that time the oldest person in the world to reach the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen.
Sarkisov worked as a mentor for mountaineers in the Georgian Armed Forces before moving onto recreational climbing. [1]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.
Renowned Sherpa mountain guide Kami Rita scaled Mount Everest for a record 30th time Wednesday, completing his second climb this month to the top of the world. Rita reached the 8,849-meter (29,032 ...
British climbers George Mallory and Andrew Irvine died on Everest in 1924. New research sheds light on whether they reached the summit first. 100 years ago they disappeared on Everest.
Debabrata Mukherjee (born 20 January 1962) is an Indian mountaineer and explorer from West Bengal.He was the oldest, first civilian Indian to climb Mount Everest from the North Col. [1] He is also the first person to cross Chaukhamba Col from Badrinath to reach Gangotri.