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His team said he summitted the world's highest mountain, 29,032-foot Mount Everest, last year, within a day of reaching the top of another peak on the 8,000-meter-plus list, Mount Lhotse.
Mingma Gyabu Sherpa (also known as Mingma David, born 16 May 1989), is a Nepalese mountaineer and rescue climber. [1] [3] [2] He was until 2024 [4] the youngest person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, [5] [6] and holds the Guinness World Record for "Fastest time to climb Everest and K2", which he did within 61 days.
Carlos Soria Fontán (born 1939) Spain, the only mountaineer to have ascended nine mountains of more than 8,000 meters after turning 60 years old; Jaahnavi Sriperambuduru (born 2001) India. William Grant Stairs (1863–1892) Canada, first non-African to climb in the Ruwenzoris; Allen Steck (1926–2023) US, mountaineer and rock climber
The documentary is about Project Possible, a plan by Nepali high altitude climber Nirmal Purja to climb all of the world's 14 highest peaks with an altitude greater than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) (called eight-thousanders) inside 7 months (i.e. from early spring to late summer, before the winter season begins). The actual climbing took 6 months ...
Rita reached the 8,849-meter (29,032-foot) summit at 7:49 a.m., according to Khim Lal Gautam, a government official at the base camp. His first ascent of this year's climbing season was on May 12 ...
Kristin Harila was unable to obtain an entry permit from China to climb Cho Oyu and Shishapangma, putting her two peaks shy of the record. Nims Purja’s Record on the 8,000-Meter Peaks Is Safe ...
For these reasons, Cho Oyu is considered the easiest 8,000-meter peak to climb. As of December 2024, there had been 4,027 successful summits and 52 deaths on the mountain. As of December 2024, there had been 4,027 successful summits and 52 deaths on the mountain.
Anna Gutu [a] (1990 or 1991 – October 7, 2023) was a Ukrainian-American climber and high-altitude mountaineer. She is known for her pursuit to become the first American woman, and the third overall American climber, to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders (which are peaks above 8,000 meters in elevation).