- male
- Nawang Sherpa became the first person to climb Mount Everest with a prosthetic leg by reaching the summit on May 16, 2004 (see Mount Everest...
- male, 50 years old
- Mark Joseph Inglis (born September 27, 1959) is a mountaineer, researcher, winemaker and motivational speaker. He holds a degree in Human...
- male, deceased (1977)
- Eric Shipton (1 August 1907 - 28 March 1977) was an English Himalayan mountaineering legend. Born in Ceylon and educated in England, Shipton began...
- male
- Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas. He is best known for his role in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster that has been the subject of...
- female, 70 years old
- Junko Tabei (May, 23, born 1939) is a Japanese mountain-climber, who became the first female to reach the summit of Mount Everest on May 16, 1975....
- female, deceased (1992)
- Wanda Rutkiewicz was born on February 4, 1943 in Plungiany, Poland (today Lithuania). She died either on May 12 or May 13, 1992, while climbing...
- male, 80 years old
- James Whittaker, also known as Jim Whittaker (born in Seattle, Washington in 1929) was the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He...
- male
- Russell Brice, (born 3 July 1952) New Zealander, is a mountaineer and CEO of Himalayan Experience, a climbing expedition company. He has summitted...
- male, 55 years old
- Stephen Venables (born 1954) is a British mountaineer and writer, who in 1988 became the first Briton to ascend to the summit of Mount Everest...
- male, deceased (1965)
- Jamling Tenzing Norgay was born in Darjeeling, India and by age six had already begun to show a penchant for climbing. He quickly became his...
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