- Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born 20 July 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. Hillary and Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay were the first people to climb to the summit of Mount Everest and return safely - a feat they achieved on 29 May 1953. They were taking part in the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. - Tenzing Norgay
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 first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest on 29 May 1953. - Reinhold Messner
Reinhold Messner (born September 17 1944) is a mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol in Italy, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of all time, noted for making the first solo ascents of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen and for being the first climber to ascend all fourteen "eight-thousanders" (peaks over 8,000 metres above sea level). - George Mallory
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 Mount Everest in the early 1920s. On the third expedition, in June of 1924, Mallory and his climbing partner Andrew Irvine both disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge during (or perhaps after completing) the final stage of their attempt to make the first ascent of the world's highest mountain. - Ed Viesturs
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 summit all fourteen mountains over 8000 meters (collectively known as the eight-thousanders), and the sixth climber to do it without bottled oxygen. Viesturs also has summitted Mount Everest six times, a feat that, excluding Sherpas, has only been surpassed by Pete Athans (7), Gheorghe Dijmarescu (8), and Dave Hahn (7). - David Sharp
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 is a Japanese alpinist who is currently the oldest person to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He reached the summit on May 22, 2003, at age 70 years and 222 days. This achievement is listed in the Guinness Book of Records. He also became the first person to ski on Mount Everest, when he descended nearly 2,400 m (8,000 ft) from the South Col (elevation over 8,000 m (26,000 ft)) in 1970. - Erik Weihenmayer
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 in September 2002. His story was covered in a Time article in June 2001 titled "Blind Faith". He is author of "Touch the Top of the World: A Blind Man's Journey to Climb Farther Than the Eye can See", his autobiography. Erik is an acrobatic skydiver, long distance biker, marathon runner, skier, mountaineer, … - Lincoln Hall
Lincoln Hall (born 1956) is a veteran Australian mountain climber and author. Hall is the author of "White Limbo", the story of the first Australian team to climb Mount Everest, and "Douglas Mawson, the Life of an Explorer". Hall was part of Australia's first attempt to climb to the top of Mount Everest in 1984. While others in the team made it to the top, Hall was forced to turn back close to the summit due to illness. - Bear Grylls
Bear Grylls (born Edward Michael Bear Grylls on 7 June 1974) is a British mountaineer and adventurer as well as best-selling author, television presenter, and international motivational speaker. Grylls, a former member of the Special Air Service (SAS), made his name by becoming, at the age of 23, the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest and return alive in 1998. He hosts the television program on Channel 4 in the UK called "Man vs. - Anatoli Boukreev
Anatoli Nikoliavich Boukreev (January 16, 1958 - December 25, 1997) was a Russian climber who made seven ascents of 8,000 metre peaks without supplemental oxygen. Boukreev was relatively unknown, though well accomplished, in the international climbing community until the 1996 spring climbing season on Mount Everest, when twelve people died in one of the biggest tragedies in the climbing history of Mount Everest. - Rob Hall
Rob Hall (1961 - May 11, 1996), New Zealander, was a mountaineer best known for being head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition in which he, a fellow guide, and two clients perished. A best-selling account of the expedition was given in Jon Krakauer's "Into Thin Air". At the time of his death, Hall had ascended Everest more times than any other non-Sherpa mountaineer. Hall met his future wife, Jan Arnold, during his Everest summit attempt in 1990. - Peter Habeler
Peter Habeler (born July 22 1942 in Mayrhofen, Austria) is an Austrian mountaineer. Among his accomplishments as a mountaineer are his first ascents in the Rocky Mountains (first European to climb on the Big Walls in Yosemite National Park). He began climbing with Reinhold Messner in 1969. Several accomplishments in mountaineering followed. The most spectacular event was the first ascent without supplemental oxygen of Mount Everest in 1978 together with Messner, … - David Breashears
David Breashears (born December 20, 1955), is an American mountaineer and filmmaker. He is well-known for being the first American man to reach the summit of Everest twice in 1985. However, he is perhaps most famous for guiding Richard Bass to the summit of Everest, thus completing Bass' ascent of the Seven Summits. Breashears has also made eight expeditions to Everest, four of them successful. - George Everest
Colonel Sir George Everest (4 July, 1790 - 1 December, 1866) was a Welsh surveyor, geographer and Surveyor-General of India from 1830 to 1843. He was largely responsible for completing the section of the Great Trigonometric Survey of India along the meridian arc from the south of India extending north to Nepal, a distance of approximately 2400 kilometres. The survey was started by William Lambton in 1806 and lasted several decades. - Andrew Irvine
Andrew "Sandy" Irvine was an English mountaineer who took part in the third British Expedition to Mount Everest in 1924. Irvine disappeared somewhere high on the North-East ridge, along with climbing partner George Mallory, whilst attempting to make the first ascent of the world's highest Mountain in June of that year. The pair's last known sighting was only a few hundred metres from the summit. - Conrad Anker
Conrad Anker (born in 1963) is an American rock climber, mountaineer, and author famous for his challenging ascents in the high Himalaya and Antarctica. He is a member of The North Face climbing team. In 1999 he was a key member of the search team which located the remains of legendary British climber George Mallory on Mount Everest. He lives in Bozeman, Montana. - Scott Fischer
Scott Fischer was an American climber and guide. Fischer spent his early life in Michigan and New Jersey and took two years of climbing courses after being inspired by a show he saw on television. In 1982, he and his wife, Jeannie Price, moved west to Seattle, Washington where they raised two children. In the 1990s, Fischer formed his own adventure company, Mountain Madness, … - Chris Bonington
Sir Christian John Storey Bonington, CBE (born 6 August 1934 in Hampstead, London) is an English mountaineer. He was educated at University College School in Hampstead and is one of the world's most experienced and successful mountaineers. In 1996, he was knighted for his services to the sport. His career has included nineteen expeditions to the Himalayas, including four to Mount Everest and the first ascent of the south face of Annapurna. - Doug Scott
Douglas Keith Scott CBE, known as Doug Scott (born 29 May 1941) is a British mountaineer famous for the first ascent of the Southwest Face of Mount Everest on 25 September 1975, and was the first Briton to climb Everest. Scott was born in Nottingham and started climbing at the age of 12, his interest sparked by a school trip to the White Hall outdoor activities centre near Buxton. - Nawang Sherpa
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 Timeline and Trivia). He is also the first amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest on his first attempt, and the first disabled person from Asia to stand on the summit. Nawang, a trans-tibial amputee, is a native of Tapting in the Himalayan region of Solukhumbu in Nepal. - Mark Inglis
Mark Joseph Inglis (born 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 won a silver medal at the Sydney 2000 Paralympic Games. He currently resides in Hanmer Springs, New Zealand with his wife Anne and their three children. In addition to being a goodwill ambassador for the Everest Rescue Trust, … - Eric Shipton
Eric Shipton (1 August 1907 - 28 March 1977) was an English Himalayan mountaineering legend. Born in Ceylon and educated in England, Shipton began climbing in the Alps. In 1928 he went to Kenya as a coffee grower, and first climbed Nelion, a peak of Mount Kenya in 1929. It was also in Kenya's community of Europeans that he met his future climbing partners Bill Tilman and Percy Wyn-Harris. Together with Wyn-Harris he climbed the twin peaks of Mount Kenya. - Beck Weathers
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 many books and film, most notably "Into Thin Air" and "Everest". During that climb, he was left for dead, exposed to the elements on the South Col, where he suffered severe frost bite. He recovered enough to walk alone and unassisted to nearby Camp IV. He was later helped to walk on frozen feet to a lower camp, … - Junko Tabei
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. Tabei was born in Fukushima Prefecture in 1939. She caught her mountain climbing bug when she climbed Mt. Nasu with a teacher when she was ten years old. This experience changed her life forever. After she graduated from Showa Women's University, where she studied English literature and joined the mountain climbing club, … - Wanda Rutkiewicz
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 Kangchenjunga. After World War II the Soviet Union annexed the eastern parts of Poland so her family moved to Wrocław in western Poland where she graduated as electrical engineer. Wanda Rutkiewicz (pron. "van"-dah root-"kie"-vitch) is regarded as one of the greatest woman mountaineers ever. - Jim Whittaker
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 summited on May 1, 1963 with three other people. They ran out of oxygen but managed to reach the summit. Once there, Whittaker planted a US flag at the top. He is the twin brother of Lou Whittaker, a mountain guide who is often mistakenly credited with that achievement. - Russell Brice
Russell Brice, (born 3 July 1952) New Zealander, is a mountaineer and CEO of Himalayan Experience, a climbing expedition company. He has summitted Cho Oyo, Himal Chuli and Mount Everest twice and is most well known for leading the 2006 expedition on Everest which was filmed by the Discovery Channel for a series titled "Everest: Beyond the Limit". He has been leading expeditions to the Himalayas since 1974. - Stephen Venables
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 without bottled oxygen. His ascent, as far as the South Col, was by a new route up the Kangshung Face from Tibet, with just three other climbers, Americans Robert Anderson and Ed Webster, and Canadian Paul Teare. All four reached the South Col but Teare decided to descend from here, concerned about incipient altitude sickness. - Jamling Tenzing Norgay
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 father�s right-hand man on climbs organized by the Himalayan Mountaineering Institute. In 1986, the great Tenzing passed away, and Norgay began to think more seriously about Everest. - Leszek Cichy
Leszek Cichy is a Polish mountaineer, geodesist, financier, and entrepreneur. He was born in Pruszków, Poland on November 14, 1951. He is best known for making the first winter ascent of Mount Everest together with Krzysztof Wielicki in 1980 which established the winter ascent record of 8,848 meters. He was also the first Polish climber to complete the Seven Summits and a number of other prestigious climbs. - Göran Kropp
Göran Kropp was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer, born in Eskilstuna in south Sweden. He is most famous for his May 23, 1996 solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support. - Bradford Washburn
Henry Bradford Washburn Jr. was an explorer, mountaineer, photographer, and cartographer extraordinaire. He was the director of the Boston Museum of Science from 1939-1980, and was its Honorary Director (a lifetime appointment) from 1985 until his death. Born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University. He returned to Harvard to earn a master’s degree in geology and geography in 1960. - Tashi Tenzing
Tashi Tenzing is a Sherpa mountaineer. He is the youngest son of Pem Pem, the eldest daughter of Tenzing Norgay, who made the first ascent of Mount Everest on 19th May 1953. Tashi spent his childhood in Darjeeling, the famed British hill station and tea growing area. He attended St Paul's School, Darjeeling – a private boarding school in the strict British tradition. He made himself quite a name in the outdoor education field, excelling at distance and sprint running, … - Wim Hof
Wim Hof is a Dutch man, commonly nicknamed Iceman. He holds nine world records including a world record for longest ice bath. In 2007, he attempted, but failed, to climb Mount Everest wearing nothing but shorts. He plans another attempt in 2008. Hof has been criticized for his stated justifications for this attempt, "Edmund Hillary's ascent of Mount Everest was a testament to human acheivement, … - Edurne Pasaban
Edurne Pasaban (born August 1 1973, in Tolosa, Spain) is a Spanish mountaineer. As of July 13, 2007, she is the second woman, after Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, who has climbed nine of the fourteen eight-thousanders: * 2007 - Broad Peak * 2005 - Nanga Parbat * 2004 - K2 * 2003 - Gasherbrum I * 2003 - Gasherbrum II * 2003 - Lhotse * 2002 - Cho Oyu * 2002 - Makalu * 2001 - Mount Everest Accidentally, she summited on Broad Peak July 12, 2007 at 11:30 a.m. local time, … - Tom Whittaker
Tom Whittaker (born 1949) is 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 continued climbing. Through training, his prosthetic foot became an advantage to climbing rather than a disadvantage. In 1981 he founded the Cooperative Wilderness Handicapped Outdoor Group (C.W.HOG) in Pocatello, Idaho. - Renata Chlumska
Renata Chlumska, born December 9, 1973 in Malmö, Sweden, is an adventurer and mountain climber. She is mainly Swedish, but also has Czech citizenship from her parents. In 1999, she became the first Swedish woman to climb Mount Everest. During 2005 and 2006 she performed a challenge called "Around America Adventure". She went around the USA (lower 48 states). She paddled a kayak from Seattle to San Diego, bicycled with the kayak on a carriage from San Diego to Brownsville, … - Tormod Granheim
Tormod Granheim (born September 17. 1974 in Trondheim, Norway is a Norwegian adventurer and motivational speaker involved in expeditions and extreme skiing. May 16. 2006 he made the first ski descent of Mount Everest North Face by the Norton Couloir. - George Band
George Band (born 1929) is a British mountaineer. Having started climbing in the Alps while a student at Queens' College, Cambridge, he was the youngest person on the 1953 Everest expedition. Two years later, in 1955, he and Joe Brown became the first climbers to ascend Kangchenjunga. Out of respect for the religious feelings of the people of Nepal and Sikkim, they stopped about ten feet below the actual summit.
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