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| x Edmund Hillary |
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Mount Everest |
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. On 29 May 1953 at the age of 33, he and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers known to have reached the...
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| x Tenzing Norgay |
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Mount Everest |
Tenzing Norgay, GM (late May 1914 — 9 May 1986) born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepali Indian Sherpa mountaineer who later settled in India. Among the most famous mountain climbers in history, he was one of the...
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| x Lino Lacedelli |
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K2 |
Lino Lacedelli (born 4 December 1925) is an Italian mountaineer.
Lacedelli was born in Cortina d'Ampezzo (Province of Belluno).
Together with Achille Compagnoni, he was the first man to reach the summit of K2 on 31 July 1954. The expedition was led...
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| x Achille Compagnoni |
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K2 |
Achille Compagnoni (26 September 1914 – 13 May 2009) was an Italian mountaineer. Together with Lino Lacedelli, on 31 July 1954 he was the first man to reach the summit of K2.
Compagnoni was born in Santa Caterina di Valfurva, in the province of...
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| x Ardito Desio |
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Count Ardito Desio (18 April 1897 – 12 December 2001) was an Italian explorer, mountain climber, geologist, and cartographer.
Desio was born in Palmanova, Friuli. He attended the Middle Schools of Udine and Cividale and the University of Florence ...
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| x Walter Bonatti |
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Gasherbrum IV |
Walter Bonatti (born 22 June 1930) is an Italian born climber who set new standards in post-war Alpine climbing.
Bonatti was born in Bergamo, Lombardy.
Famed for his climbing panache, he pioneered little known and technically difficult climbs in the...
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| x Myrtle Prater | Mount Julius Caesar |
Myrtle Prater and her husband made the first recorded ascent of Mount Julius Caesar, which they named because of its prominance looming over Lake Italy.
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Steve Roper is a noted climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada in the United States. He along with Allen Steck are the founding editors of the Sierra Club journal Ascent.
Roper is the winner of the Sierra Club's Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering...
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| x David R. Brower |
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Mount Hopkins |
David Ross Brower (July 1, 1912 – November 5, 2000) was a prominent environmentalist and the founder of many environmental organizations, including the Sierra Club Foundation, the John Muir Institute for Environmental Studies, Friends of the Earth ...
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David Lim is a Singaporean mountaineer and motivational speaker who led the first Singapore Mount Everest Expedition in 1998. Between 1994 and 1998, he led and organised a team from the flat tropical island nation to the top of Everest. Sustaining...
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| x Khoo Swee Chiow |
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Khoo Swee Chiow (simplified Chinese: 邱瑞昭; pinyin: Qiū Ruìzhāo; born 1964 in Port Dickson, Malaysia) is a Singaporean adventurer, author and motivational speaker.
Khoo climbed Mount Everest in 1998 as a member of Singapore's first Mount Everest...
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| x Charlie Fowler |
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Charlie Fowler (1954 - December 4, 2006 (estimated)) was an American mountain climber, writer, and photographer. He was one of North America’s most experienced mountain climbers, and successfully climbed many of the world’s highest peaks. Along with...
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| x Arthur Oliver Wheeler |
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Arthur Oliver Wheeler (May 1, 1860 - May 20, 1945) was born in Ireland and immigrated to Canada in 1876 at the age of 16. He became a land surveyor and surveyed large areas of western Canada, including photo-topographical surveys of the Selkirk...
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| x Krzysztof Wielicki |
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Krzysztof Wielicki (born January 5, 1950 in Szklarka Przygodzicka, municipality Ostrzeszów, Poland) - Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding himalaists of the world. He is the fifth man to climb all fourteen eight...
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| x Karl Prusik |
Dr. Karl Prusik (1896 - 1961) (also spelled Prussik) was an Austrian mountaineer who is known as the inventor of the prusik knot. He died in May 1961 at the age of 65.
The benefit of the knot is that, when weighted, it grips the rope that it is tied...
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| x Mark Inglis |
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Mark Joseph Inglis (ONZM, September 27, 1959) is a mountaineer, researcher, winemaker and motivational speaker. He holds a degree in Human Biochemistry from Lincoln University, New Zealand, and has conducted research in Leukemia. He is also an...
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| x Byron Smith |
Byron Smith born 5 March 1984 in Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, is a rugby league player for the Batley Bulldogs in National League One. He plays as a prop and can operate in the second-row. He has previously played for the Castleford Tigers in...
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| x Gary Hemming |
Gary Hemming (1934 – 1969) was a noted American mountaineer. Together with Royal Robbins he made the first ascent of the American Direct route on the Aiguille du Dru in Chamonix in 1962, and was widely known in France for his role as a rescuer of a...
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| x Jake Meyer |
Jake Meyer (born 20 January 1984) was the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest (aged 21 years 4 months). The record is now held by Rob Gauntlett who was 19 at the time. Jake is also the youngest male to complete the ‘'Seven Summits'’ – the highest...
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| x Paul Pritchard |
Paul Pritchard (born 1967 in Bolton, Lancashire) was one of the leading British climbers of the 1980s and 1990s. He started climbing at 16 in his native Lancashire, and in 1986 moved to Llanberis in North Wales, climbing extensively on the slate of...
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| x Jim Wickwire |
Jim Wickwire (born June 8, 1940) is a retired attorney in Seattle, Washington, most famous as the first American to reach the top of K2, the world's second-highest mountain, and then for surviving the night in the open just below the summit.
His...
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| x Charles Evans |
Sir Robert Charles Evans M.D., DSc, (19 October 1918 – 5 December 1995), was a British mountaineer, surgeon, and educator.
Born in Liverpool, he was raised in Wales and became a fluent Welsh language speaker. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Oxford...
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| x A. W. Andrews |
Arthur Westlake Andrews (1868 – 1959) was a British geographer, poet, rock-climber, and mountaineer.
He trained as a geographer (FRGS 1896) and became a teacher of geography and history in Southwark. In 1913 he published 'a text-book of geography',...
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| x Arne Næss Jr. |
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Arne Næss, Jr. (8 December 1937 – 13 January 2004) was a Norwegian businessman and mountaineer. He had been married to Diana Ross since 1985, by whom he had two sons, but the couple was long separated at the time of his sudden death.
Næss was born...
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| x Patrick Morrow |
Patrick Allan Morrow, CM (born October 18, 1952 in Invermere, British Columbia) is a Canadian photographer and mountain climber who was first person in the world to have climbed the highest peaks of all seven continents: Mount McKinley in North...
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| x Lou Whittaker |
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Lou Whittaker (born in Seattle, Washington on February 10, 1929) is a higher-altitude and glacier-travel guide.
Whittaker and his twin brother Jim were born and raised in Seattle.
Besides his worldwide climbing experience, he became the most...
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| x Edward Whymper |
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Aiguille Verte |
Edward Whymper (27 April 1840 – 16 September 1911), was a British illustrator, climber and explorer best known for the first ascent of the Matterhorn in 1865. On the descent four members of the party were killed.
Edward Whymper was born in London,...
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| x Charles F. Hoffmann |
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Mount Dana |
Charles Frederick Hoffmann (1838–1913) was a German-American topographer working in California U.S. from 1860 to 1880.
Hoffmann was born in Frankfurt, Germany, 1838. After receiving an education in engineering, he emigrated to America. In 1857 he...
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| x Oscar Eckenstein |
Oscar Eckenstein (9 September 1859 – 1921) was an English rock-climber and mountaineer. He was one of the few people who readily climbed with Aleister Crowley, with whom he made an early expedition to K2. Crowley, in his Confessions, praises...
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| x Leo Oracion |
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Heracleo Salumbides Oración reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 17, 2006, at the age of 32. He reached the summit at 3:30pm (local time), together with 15 other climers.
However, Mount Everest chronicler Elizabeth Hawley said on June 14,...
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| x Sharon Wood |
Sharon Adele Wood (born May 18, 1957), a Canadian mountaineer, was the first North American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
Mount Everest was a culmination of an odyssey that began at age twelve when her father took her up her first...
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| x Yevgeniy Abalakov |
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Ismail Samani Peak |
Yevgeniy Mikhaylovich Abalakov (Russian: Евгений Михайлович Абалаков; February 17 [O.S. February 4] 1907, Yeniseysk — March 23, 1948, Moscow) was a Soviet alpinist and sculptor. He is noted for making the first ascent of the highest point of the...
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| x Smoke Blanchard |
William Earl "Smoke" Blanchard (March 3, 1915 – June 23, 1989) was an American mountaineer, climber, trekking leader, guide, world traveler, writer, Buddhist, and a truck driver. He was born in Montana and moved to Portland, Oregon in his early...
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| x Kit Deslauriers |
Kit DesLauriers (b 1969) is a champion American skier and the first person to ski down the Seven Summits.
She was born in Albany, New York and grew up in Westport, Massachusetts and Long Island, New York. Her grandfather built the first chairlift at...
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| x Marie Marvingt |
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Marie Marvingt (20 February 1875 – 14 December 1963) was a French athlete, mountaineer, and aviator, and the most decorated woman in the history of France. She won numerous prizes for her sporting achievements and was the first woman to climb many...
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| x William Wasbrough Foster |
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Major-General William Wasbrough Foster DSO CMG VD (October 1, 1875 - December 2, 1954) was a noted mountaineer, Conservative Party politician, business man, and chief constable in British Columbia, Canada in addition to his distinguished military...
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| x Ulrich Inderbinen |
Ulrich Inderbinen (December 3, 1900 – June 14, 2004) was a Swiss mountain guide famous for his longevity and love for mountain climbing. He had been on the top of Matterhorn over 370 times and made his last ascent of it when he was 90.
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| x Hans Gmoser |
Johann Wolfgang "Hans" Gmoser, CM (July 7, 1932 - July 5, 2006) is a founder of modern mountaineering in Canada. Born in Austria in 1932, he came to Canada in 1951, and since then has been a major driving force behind the growing popularity of...
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| x Mathias Zdarsky |
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Mathias Zdarsky (25 February1856 in Kozichowitz, Czech: Kožichovice near Třebíč District of Austria, present Czechia – 20 June1940 in St. Pölten, Austria) was an early ski pioneer and is considered one of the founders of modern Alpine skiing...
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| x Marcus Schmuck |
Marcus Schmuck (April 18, 1925 - August 21, 2005) was an Austrian mountaineer. In 1957, together with Hermann Buhl he organized the expedition, firstly envisaged and initiated by Hermann Buhl, to climb the worlds 12th highest peak, the Broad Peak (8...
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| x Tom Hornbein |
Thomas "Tom" Hornbein is a well known American mountaineer.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1930, Hornbein developed an interest in geology as a teenager. His study of geology led to a fascination with mountains. Eventually he also became interested...
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| x Nasuh Mahruki |
Ali Nasuh Mahruki (born May 21, 1968) is a professional mountain climber, writer, photographer and documentary producer. An all-round outdoor sportsman, he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest and was the first ever Turkish person to climb the...
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| x Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed |
Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed (1860 - July 27, 1934) was a British pioneer of mountaineering in a time when it was almost unheard of for a woman to climb mountains. She was also an author and a photographer of mountain scenery.
She came from an upper...
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| x Heinrich Harrer |
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Mount Hunter |
Heinrich Harrer (German pronunciation: [ˈhaɪnʁɪç ˈhaʁɐ]; July 6, 1912 – January 7, 2006) was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author.
He is best known for his books The White Spider and Seven Years in Tibet
Heinrich Harrer was...
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| x Chris Townsend |
Chris Townsend is a passionate hillwalker and author of 15 books.
Townsend was the first person to climb all of the Munros and Tops in a continuous walk involving 1700 miles (2700 km) and 575,000 feet (170,000 m) of ascent over all 517 of the 3000...
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| x George and Ashley Abraham |
George and Ashley Abraham (George Dixon Abraham, 7 October 1871 – 4 March 1965; Ashley Perry Abraham, 20 February 1876 – 9 October 1951) were brother climbers and photographers who lived in Keswick, Cumberland in the English Lake District. They made...
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| x Anatoli Boukreev |
Anatoli Nikoliavich Boukreev, Russian: Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев, (January 16, 1958 - December 25, 1997) was a Russian (USSR/Kazakhstan) climber who made seven ascents of 8,000 metre peaks without supplemental oxygen. In total he made 18...
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| x Naomi Uemura |
Naomi Uemura (植村直己, Uemura Naomi, February 12, 1941 - c. February 13, 1984) was a Japanese adventurer. He was particularly well known for doing alone what had previously been achieved only with large teams. For example, he was the first person ever...
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| x Peter Aufschnaiter |
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Peter Aufschnaiter (2 November 1899 – 12 October 1973) was an Austrian mountaineer, agricultural scientist, geographer and cartographer. el]], Austria, he went to high school in Kufstein. During his school education he was drafted into military...
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| x Serhan Poçan |
Serhan Poçan (1970) is a Turkish mountaineer and a summiter of Mount Everest.
He was born on April 11, 1970 in Konya, Turkey. Serhan graduated from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara with a BS degree in Mathematics. Currently, he is...
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| x Tom Whittaker |
Tom Whittaker (born 1948 in Wales) was the first disabled person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest.
Whittaker's right foot needed to be amputated following a car accident in 1979. Following this serious accident, he regained his strength and...
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| x Wally Berg |
Wally Berg (born 1955) is a mountaineer from the United States.
Berg was the first American to summit Lhotse in 1990 and he solo'd Cho Oyu in 1987. He has summited Mount Everest four times.
Berg now operates Berg Adventures International, an...
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| x Junko Tabei |
Junko Tabei (May, 23, born 1939) is a Japanese mountain-climber, who became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 16, 1975.
After obtaining a degree in English literature from Showa Women's University where she was a member of...
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| x Yuichiro Miura |
Yuichiro Miura (三浦雄一郎, born October 12, 1932) is a Japanese alpinist who in 2003 became the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, aged 70. This record was later broken, but at 0733 local time on May 26th 2008 Yuichiro and team Miura...
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| x Chris Bonington | The Ogre |
Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CBE (born 6 August 1934 in Hampstead, London) is a British mountaineer.
His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest and the first ascent of the south face of...
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| x J. M. Archer Thomson |
James Merriman Archer Thomson (1863-1912) was a British rock-climber and mountaineer.
Thomson climbed extensively in North Wales with others such as Oscar Eckenstein. He was a believer in leading on sight, and was not keen on O. G. Jones's practice...
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| x Kinji Imanishi |
Kinji Imanishi (今西錦司) (January 6, 1902 - June 15, 1992) was a Japanese ecologist and anthropologist. He was the founder of Kyoto University's Primate Research Institute, and together with Junichiro Itani is considered the founder of Japanese...
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| x Conrad Gessner |
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Konrad Gessner (Conrad Gessner, Conrad Geßner, Conrad von Gesner, Conradus Gesnerus, Conrad Gesner; 26 March 1516 – 13 December 1565) was a Swiss naturalist and bibliographer. His five-volume Historiae animalium (1551-1558) is considered the...
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