Geri Winkler

Geri Winkler

male, 53 years old
Geri Winkler (born 13 April 1956 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian mountaineer, who was the first insulin-dependent diabetic to reach the summit...
Greg MacGillivray

Greg MacGillivray

male
Greg MacGillivray (born 1945) is a two-time Academy Award-nominated American IMAX film director and cinematographer. MacGillivray was first...
Jim Wickwire

Jim Wickwire

male, 69 years old
Jim Wickwire (born 1940) is an attorney in Seattle, Washington, most famous as the first American to reach the top of K2, the world's...
Nawang Gombu

Nawang Gombu

male, 73 years old
Nawang Gombu (born 1936) is a Sherpa mountaineer. He is a nephew of Tenzing Norgay, the first person to climb Mount Everest, and took part in the...
Lionel Terray

Lionel Terray

male, deceased (1965)
Lionel Terray was a French climber who made many first ascents, including Makalu in the Himalaya (with Jean Couzy on 15 May 1955) and Cerro Fitzroy...
Bachendri Pal

Bachendri Pal

female, 55 years old
Bachendri Pal, born in 1954 in Nakuri village, Garhwal, India, is the first Indian woman (and the fifth in the world), to scale the Mt. Everest,...
Lakpa Gelu

Lakpa Gelu

male, 40 years old
Lakpa Gelu, a Sherpa born in 1969, is a climber from Jubing - 1, KhariKhola, Solukhumbu, Nepal. He is known for holding a previous world record for...
Yasuko Namba

Yasuko Namba

female, deceased (1996)
Yasuko Namba (February 2 1949-May 10 1996) was famous in her native Japan for becoming only the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei) to summit...
Khoo Swee Chiow

Khoo Swee Chiow

male, 45 years old
Khoo Swee Chiow is an adventurer, author and motivational speaker. He was born in Port Dickson, Malaysia in 1964. Khoo climbed Mount Everest in...
Peter Athans

Peter Athans

male
Pete Athans is one of the world's foremost high-altitude mountaineers. He is best known for being the only non-sherpa to summit Mount Everest seven...