Edmund Hillary

Edmund Hillary

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...
Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay

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...
Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner

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...
George Mallory

George Mallory

male, deceased (1924)
George Herbert Leigh Mallory (18 June 1886 - 8 June/9 June 1924) was an English mountaineer who took part in the first three British expeditions to...
Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs

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...
David Sharp

David Sharp

male, deceased (2006)
David Sharp was a British mountaineer who possibly summitted Mount Everest on his third attempt but died on 15 May 2006 near the summit.
Yuichiro Miura

Yuichiro Miura

male, 77 years old
Yuichiro Miura is a Japanese alpinist who is currently the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He reached the summit on May 22,...
Erik Weihenmayer

Erik Weihenmayer

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...
Lincoln Hall

Lincoln Hall

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...
Bear Grylls

Bear Grylls

male, 35 years old
Bear Grylls (born Edward Michael Bear Grylls on 7 June 1974) is a British mountaineer and adventurer as well as best-selling author, television...