This a collection of portraits of the men and women who coined our understanding of Mount Everest most.
Robert Edwin “Rob” Hall (1961 – 1996) has been a Mt Everest head guide in the 1990s. He was a New Zealand mountain guide and organized guided tours to Mount Everest with the guide agency Adventure Consultants yearly. By 1996, Rob Hall had completed four summits of Everest, more than any other non-Sherpa mountaineer and […]
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The most legendary persons who summited Mt Everest are often seen as the best climbers ever, the best mountaineers of the world. This is a set of twelve portraits of persons that I consider as Legends of Everest. The order in above overview was chosen for design reasons. Here is another one: Sherpa: Ang Rita,
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The earthquake 2015 in Nepal shed light on the countries bad economical situation. Instead of paying sherpa bad the government should increase their salary and foster growth through increasing tourism. Mountaineers should be first to adapt. How much do Sherpas make? Today, Local guides are hired by climbing companies. Sherpa get paid the paltry amount of
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George Herbert Leigh Mallory (1886 – 1924) is the first “super hero” of Mt Everest. He was part of three British expeditions and eventually died high up on the mountain, below Second Step.
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Reinhold Messner, along with Peter Habeler, made the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen in 1978 and he was first to climb the mountain free solo in 1980. Messner was also the first climber to ascend all fourteen peaks over 8,000 meters (26,000 ft). Messner was born in 1944 and grew up in
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Junko Tabei (1939 –2016) was a Japanese mountaineer. She was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and the first woman to ascend all Seven Summits by climbing the highest peak on every continent.
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Russell Brice is probably the best known mountain guide in the world. He has reinvented the way mountain guides work at Mt Everest, he is a successful mountaineer for himself and he is a movie star. Russell was in 1952 in New Zealand, as many other famous climbers, and he was always fascinated from ice
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Marco Siffredi is the worlds first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard. In 2001 he chose the Norton Couloir at the left side of the north face. He disappeared in 2002 after making his second successful Everest summit – accompanied by the three Sherpa among them Phurba Tashi – while attempting to snowboard the
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Long Dorje is not a record holder, but he managed climbing Mount Everest well over 10 times which secures him a place among the first to achieve this.
Edmund Hillary (1919 –2008) was first to summit Mount Everest in 1953 with Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay. They took a southern route passing the Khumbu Icefall and the South Col before they reached and mastered a steep step – today called the Hillary Step.
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