- male, deceased (2008) (New Zealand)
- Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born 20 July 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing...
- male, 52 years old
- Greg Mortenson (born 1957) is a mountain climber, former U.S. Army medic, and humanitarian from Bozeman, Montana. From 1958 to 1973, Mortenson grew...
- male, 41 years old
- Erik Weihenmayer (born 1968) is the first blind person to reach the summit of Mount Everest, on May 25, 2001. He also completed the Seven Summits...
- male, 65 years old
- Reinhold Messner (born September 17 1944) is a mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol in Italy, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of...
- male, 55 years old
- Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954), is an American writer and mountaineer, well-known for outdoor and mountain-climbing writing
- male, deceased (1986)
- Tenzing Norgay GM (May 1914 - 9 May 1986), often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing, was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer. He and Edmund Hillary were the...
- male, deceased (2006)
- Heinrich Harrer was an Austrian mountaineer, sportsman, geographer, and author. Heinrich Harrer was born in Hüttenberg, Carinthia to a postal w...
- male, 53 years old
- Lincoln Hall (born 1956) is a veteran Australian mountain climber and author. Hall is the author of "White Limbo", the story of the first...
- male, deceased (1914)
- John Muir was one of the first modern preservationists. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, and wildlife,...
- male, 50 years old
- Ed Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is the first American, and 12th person overall, to...
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