query: who were the first two persons to scale mt.everest

pos: Edmund Hillary to the UNESCO Memory of the world archive in 2013, it is currently held by Auckland War Memorial Museum. Edmund Hillary Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in secondary school. He made his first major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount

neg: Arvind Raturi of help to my people." he was quoted as saying. Arvind Raturi Arvind Raturi (; born 6 June 1992) is the youngest mountaineer of Uttarakhand to scale Mount Everest at the age of 20 years 11 months. As a member of the NCC (National Cadet Corps) Mt Everest Expedition 2013, Arvind summited the world’s highest peak on 19 May 2013 at 0730 hours (IST). Arvind is a resident of Rindol village of Pratapnagar Tehsil in Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, India. To select the team for Mt Everest Expedition, 108 (one hundred and eight) NCC boy cadets were shortlisted from

neg: Arvind Raturi Arvind Raturi Arvind Raturi (; born 6 June 1992) is the youngest mountaineer of Uttarakhand to scale Mount Everest at the age of 20 years 11 months. As a member of the NCC (National Cadet Corps) Mt Everest Expedition 2013, Arvind summited the world’s highest peak on 19 May 2013 at 0730 hours (IST). Arvind is a resident of Rindol village of Pratapnagar Tehsil in Tehri Garhwal district of Uttarakhand, India. To select the team for Mt Everest Expedition, 108 (one hundred and eight) NCC boy cadets were shortlisted from across the country and trained at Nehru Institute of Mountaineering,

neg: Subhash Pal Pal is the 284 climber to have died while attempting to scale Mount Everest, the world’s highest peak at 8,848 metres in spring 2016. Subash Pal lost his life due to frostbite which later led to hypothermia. Subhash Pal Subhash Pal was an Indian mountaineer, from Bankura, West Bengal. He died on 22 May 2016 while returning, after reaching the summit of Mount Everest (8,848 metre) on 21 May 2016. He was the first mountaineer from Bankura to scale Mt Everest. He was in the same team of other three Bengali climbers Sunita Hazra, Paresh Nath and Goutam Ghosh. Only

neg: Everest Base Camp at this point, climbers allow a day of rest for acclimatization. They then trek another two days to Dingboche, before resting for another day for further acclimatization. Another two days takes them to Everest Base Camp via Gorakshep, the flat field below Kala Patthar, and Mt. Pumori. On 25 April 2015, an earthquake measuring 7.8 on the moment magnitude scale, struck Nepal and triggered an avalanche on Pumori that swept through the South Base Camp. At least 19 people were said to have been killed as a result. Just over two weeks later, on May 12, a second quake struck

neg: Earth Day members of the historic Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb who called from their base camp on Mount Everest to pledge their support for world peace and attention to environmental issues. The Earth Day 20 International Peace Climb was led by Jim Whittaker, the first American to summit Mt. Everest (many years earlier), and marked the first time in history that mountaineers from the United States, Soviet Union, and China had roped together to climb a mountain, let alone Mt. Everest. The group also collected more than two tons of trash (transported down the mountain by support groups along the

neg: Dale Abenojar Dorchi Sherpa. The two extraordinary Mt. Everest guides who assisted our own independent Filipino climber in his Mt. Everest expedition. The two-time Everest summiteer Tshiring Jangbu Sherpa, successfully climbed both the North and South side, led Dale all the way to the summit for his third time. Unfortunately, Pasang Dorchi Sherpa- a two time Everest summiteer who lost all his toes to frostbite did not make it. Abenojar's feat had been certified by the Mountaineering Association of Tibet of the Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China and corroborated by a respected Himalayan expedition American chronicler, Ms. Elisabeth Hawley.

neg: Premlata Agarwal became the oldest Indian woman to scale Mount Everest doing it at the age of 53. She also became the first person from Jharkhand state to scale Mount Everest. Prior to this, she took part in an Island Peak Expedition in Nepal (20,600 ft) in 2004; the Karakoram Pass (18,300 ft) and Mt. Saltoro Kangri (20,150 ft) in 2006. She participated in the First Indian Women’s Thar Desert Expedition in 2007 and again in 2015 ; a 40 day camel safari from Bhuj in Gujarat to the Wagah Border (Indo-Pak border) in Punjab. Her feats have earned her a listing

neg: Ashish Mane Ashish Mane Ashish Mane (Born 14 August 1990) is one of the prominent professional mountaineer from India. He has scaled Mt. [Mount Everest|Everest]] (2012)., Mt. [Lhotse]] (2013), Mt. Makalu (2014) and Mt Manaslu (2017). Ashish is the only climber from Maharashtra as of now, to ascend four of the fourteen Eight-thousander|peaks over 8,000 metres means about 26,000 ft above sea level. In the year 2016, he attempted to scale Daulagiri, but due to technical reasons he had to quit the expedition Ashish hails from Satara, Maharashtra. He is an alumnus of Raje Shivraya Pratishthan college in Kothrud, Pune. He holds

neg: The Lawrence School, Sanawar as cricket, cross country running, debating and many other activities. A group of Sanawarians have entered the record books as they are the youngest team and the first school in the world to have conquered Mt. Everest. These teenagers ranged between the ages of 15 and 16. One of the climbers is the youngest Asian and the second-youngest person in the world to scale Mt. Everest. Sanawar's former pupils are known as "Old Sanawarians", "OS" for short Sukhmani Tiwana IPS officer In Rudyard Kipling's novel "Kim" (1901), a priest called Father Victor proposes that the central character, the boy Kim,

neg: Alex Staniforth climb Mt. Everest aged 18. After reaching Everest Base Camp from Lukla, he and his team were preparing for their bid on the summit when an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 climbing Sherpas. The decision was taken to abandon the expedition. Staniforth returned to Everest in 2015. On 25 April 2015, the Nepal earthquake struck. The earthquake measured 7.8 on the Richter scale and precipitated several avalanches on Everest, one of which hit base camp and killed 3 Sherpas in Staniforth's team. He and his team was just below Camp 1 (6,050m) and became stranded on the mountain

neg: Hidden Expedition the top of Mt. Everest ahead of three competing expedition clubs. But first the player must find a mysterious adventurer who can help them find a hidden passage up. This leads the player through a variety of locations in Latin America, Europe, and Asia before ending at Mt. Everest. The game features a likeness of world-famous mountaineer and Mt. Everest climber, Ed Viesturs as an assistant who provides players with guidance on various locations. Viesturs was involved in the actual development of the game, along with National Geographic Ventures, which worked with Big Fish Games to incorporate some of "National

neg: Wang Lei (mountaineer) 2010, Lei summited Mt Everest and became the first Chinese woman and the first Asian American who has successfully climbed the highest peak on each of the seven continents and skied to both the North Pole and the South Pole. Time table of Lei's Adventure: 2003 Kilimanjaro 2005 Elbrus 2007 Mt McKinley (Denali) 2007 Carstensz Pyramid (Puncak Jaya) 2007 Vinson Massif 2008 South Pole 2008 Aconcagua 2008 North Pole 2010 Mt Everest Wang Lei (mountaineer) Wang Lei () is the first Chinese woman and the first Asian American who have climbed the Seven Summits and skied to both the North

neg: Vladas Vitkauskas awarded (1997) the diploma of honour of the international Fair Play Committee for participating in the rescue of the body of Pasang Lhamu, the leader of the Nepalese Women Everest Expedition (1993) from Mt. Everest. Vladas Vitkauskas Vladas Vitkauskas (born May 7, 1953 in Viduklė, Raseiniai district in Lithuania) became the first Lithuanian and the first mountaineer from the Baltic states to climb the world‘s highest mountain, Mt. Everest (8,848 m, May 10, 1993). Between 1993 and 1996 Vitkauskas climbed the Seven Summits, the highest peaks of all the continents including Mt. Everest (Eurasia), Mt. McKinley (6,194 m, North America),

neg: Eureka! Tent Company nineteen-man team on the first all-American expedition to Mt. Everest; the American Women's Himalayan Expedition to Annapurna I; Eric Simonson on two research expeditions to Mt. Everest; then-President George H. W. Bush, whom Bass Pro Employees in Springfield, Missouri spotted purchasing a Eureka! tent in 1991; the Girl Scouts of the USA; the Boy Scouts of America; the Arctic Institute of North America; the United States Department of the Interior; the Geological Survey; the Peace Corps; Lee African Safaris; and the U.S. Navy Operation Deep Freeze. Sir Edmund Hillary, who in 1953 was among one of the first explorers in

neg: Sherpa people famous Nepalese female mountaineers was Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, the first Nepali female climber to reach the summit of Everest, but who died during the descent. Her namesake, Pasang Lamu Sherpa Akita, has also climbed Everest, and was one of three Nepali women who were the first to reach the summit of K2. Another well-known female Sherpa was the two-time Everest summiter Pemba Doma Sherpa, who died after falling from Lhotse on 22 May 2007. On May 20, 2011, Mingma Sherpa became the first Nepali and the first South Asian to scale all 14 of the world's highest mountains. In the

neg: Pem Dorjee Sherpa Pem Dorjee Sherpa Pem Dorjee () is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer born in 1982 in Chyangba, a small, remote village south of Mount Everest in Khumbu, Nepal. Pem Dorjee has climbed Mt. Everest two times, the second time with his girlfriend Moni Mulepati where they exchanged wedding vows on 30 May 2005, and thus became the first couple to be married on top of Mt. Everest while on the Rotary Centennial Everest Expedition. They also hoisted the flag of Rotary International, a club with which Dorjee has frequently been involved, in honor of its centennial year. Aside from his mountaineering

neg: Mount Everest in 2013 Sudarshan Gautam, who was descending the mountain after becoming the first person without arms to summit Everest without using prosthetics. Gautam was rescued after collapsing near Camp 3. On 21 May 2013 a team from Lawrence School Sanawar climbed Mt. Everest. The first school to do this globally. On 21 May, Arunima Sinha became the first female amputee to summit Everest. Phurba Tashi completed his 21st summit in May, a total equal to the record held by Apa Sherpa. On 27 April, three climbers were attacked by a group of 100 Sherpas at 21,000 feet elevation. The event was seen

neg: Laurie Skreslet America and India. Other mountains Skreslet has climbed in his journey were in the North American Rockies, South American Andes and Asian Himalayas. Since his journey up Mt. Everest in 1982, he has returned five times. During his journey on Mt. Everest, the only injury he received was three broken ribs, even though other mountain climbers have died trying to climb the mountain. Outside of Skreslet's achievements of being the first Canadian to climb Mount Everest he is a motivational speaker and has presented 1500 presentations throughout the world. In July 2001 Skreslet published To the Top of Everest, which

neg: Mount Everest the first paraglider descent of Everest in September 1988, descending in minutes from the south-east ridge to a lower camp. In 2011, two Nepalese made a gliding descent from the Everest summit down in 45 minutes. On 5 May 2013, the beverage company Red Bull sponsored Valery Rozov, who successfully BASE jumped off of the mountain while wearing a wingsuit, setting a record for world's highest BASE jump in the process. The southern part of Mt. Everest is regarded as one of several "hidden valleys" of refuge designated by Padmasambhava, a ninth-century "lotus-born" Buddhist saint. Near the base of the

neg: Martin Hewitt (adventurer) 2012 he summited Mount McKinley (Denali) in Alaska. Later that year he made his first attempt at climbing Mount Everest, again as part of the Walking With The Wounded team. However, treacherous conditions forced the team to abandon their attempt before reaching the summit. Hewitt is currently leading the Adaptive Grand Slam team on its attempt to be the first disabled team to reach the North and South Poles and to scale the highest mountain on all seven continents. As of November 2014, the North Pole, Mt McKinley (North America) and Mt Elbrus (Europe) had been summited and the team

neg: Subhash Pal Subhash Pal Subhash Pal was an Indian mountaineer, from Bankura, West Bengal. He died on 22 May 2016 while returning, after reaching the summit of Mount Everest (8,848 metre) on 21 May 2016. He was the first mountaineer from Bankura to scale Mt Everest. He was in the same team of other three Bengali climbers Sunita Hazra, Paresh Nath and Goutam Ghosh. Only Sunita Hazra returned back alive from his team. Subash Pal had reached the 8,848-metre summit on Saturday but collapsed while descending the Hillary Step ice wall. He died in the region between Camp IV and Camp III.

neg: Avtar Singh Cheema the peak. He was a captain in the 7th Bn Parachute regiment at that time. Later he was promoted to colonel. He was awarded Arjuna award and Padma Shri for his achievements. Avtar Singh Cheema Avtar Singh Cheema (1933–1989): along with 8 others were the first Indians to lead a successful expedition that climbed Mount Everest on 20 May 1965. He was a part of the third mission undertaken by the Indian Army, in 1965, to climb Mt. Everest after two failed attempts. The 1965 Indian Army expedition was the first successful Indian Expedition to Everest which put 9 mountaineers

neg: Avtar Singh Cheema Avtar Singh Cheema Avtar Singh Cheema (1933–1989): along with 8 others were the first Indians to lead a successful expedition that climbed Mount Everest on 20 May 1965. He was a part of the third mission undertaken by the Indian Army, in 1965, to climb Mt. Everest after two failed attempts. The 1965 Indian Army expedition was the first successful Indian Expedition to Everest which put 9 mountaineers on top, a record to last 17 years. He along with H. P. S. Ahluwalia, Nawang Gombu, Sonam Wangyal, Sonam Gyatso, Harish Chandra Singh Rawat, Chandra Prakash Vohra among others successfully summited

neg: Dale Abenojar members Leo Oracion and Erwin "Pastor" Emata, who had climbed to the top of Mount Everest via the Nepal side or the south slope and reached it on May 17 and 18, 2006. The FPMEE had dismissed Abenojar’s CTMA summit certificate as a "forgery" and his claim a "hoax", and maintained that Oracion and Emata were the first and second Filipinos to conquer Mount Everest. SYNOPSIS: Dale Abenojar: Did He or Didn't He Scale Mount Everest - "CHILD IN EVEREST": A DOCUMENTARY Many are skeptical that he made it to the summit and was actually able to scale the highest

neg: 1924 British Mount Everest expedition Everest. Horses, donkeys, yaks, and dozens of local porters provided transport. The expeditions arrived at Mt. Everest in late April and only had until June before the monsoon began, allowing only six to eight weeks for altitude acclimatisation, setting up camps, and the actual climbing attempts. A secondary task for the expedition was to survey the area around the West Rongbuk Glacier. The Survey of India sent a Gurkha surveyor with the expedition who was assisted in climbing to the difficult areas to survey. Two expeditions preceded the 1924 effort. The first in 1921 was an exploratory expedition led by

neg: Indian Navy for being the first military team to have successfully completed a ski traverse to the Geographic South Pole. Also, three of the ten member team—the expedition leader—Cdr. Satyabrata Dam, leading medical assistants Rakesh Kumar and Vikas Kumar are now among the few people in the world to have visited the two poles and summited Mt. Everest. Indian Navy became the first organisation to reach the poles and Mt. Everest. Cdr. Dilip Donde completed the first solo circumnavigation by an Indian citizen on 22 May 2010. By the end of the 14th Plan (2019), the Indian Navy expects to have over

neg: Tashi and Nungshi Malik scaled a virgin peak at 21000 ft funded by Indian Mountaineering Foundation in Aug 2013. Guinness World Records has featured the twin sisters in its 60th edition as first female twins to scale Everest together and in its 2016 issue as the first twins and siblings to complete Seven Summits. On 16 December 2014, after climbing Mt Vinson in Antarctica, they became world's first twins and siblings to scale the 'Seven Summits' together. A summary of Tashi and Nungshi Malik's mountaineering and adventure milestones is given below: World records National and regional records Honours and awards Tashi and Nungshi Malik

neg: Richard McGowan Richard McGowan Richard "Dick" McGowan (July 12, 1933 – February 27, 2007) was an American explorer, mountaineer, and entrepreneur, who helped start the modern adventure travel industry. He is best remembered today for his Mt. Everest expedition in 1955, during which he climbed the Khumbu Ice Fall, thus becoming the first American to set foot on Mt. Everest. McGowan was a key figure in the development of modern outdoor gear, and was the first employee of Recreation Equipment Incorporated (REI). In the '60s and early '70s he owned a group of stores in the northwest that sold climbing and ski

neg: 1922 British Mount Everest expedition of the very first scientist who had pointed out the possible use of bottled oxygen for gaining great heights. At this point in time the available systems (derived from mining rescue systems) were in his opinion too heavy to be a help at great heights. Kellas was part of the Everest reconnaissance expedition in 1921 but died on the way to Mt. Everest. This expedition had taken bottled oxygen with them, but it was never used. Additionally, few paid much attention to Kellas' innovative ideas, possibly because his scientific work belonged strictly to the amateur tradition. More attention was paid

neg: Mount Everest a lot of new snow which can be unstable. However, this increased snow can make it more popular with certain winter sports like skiing and snow boarding. Two Japanese also summited in October 1973. Chris Chandler and Bob Cormack summited Everest in October 1976 as part of the American Bicentennial Everest Expedition that year, the first Americans to make an autumn ascent of Mt. Everest according to the "Los Angeles Times". By the 21st century, summer and autumn can be more popular with skiing and snowboard attempts on Mount Everest. During the 1980s, climbing in autumn was actually more popular

neg: Vladas Vitkauskas Vladas Vitkauskas Vladas Vitkauskas (born May 7, 1953 in Viduklė, Raseiniai district in Lithuania) became the first Lithuanian and the first mountaineer from the Baltic states to climb the world‘s highest mountain, Mt. Everest (8,848 m, May 10, 1993). Between 1993 and 1996 Vitkauskas climbed the Seven Summits, the highest peaks of all the continents including Mt. Everest (Eurasia), Mt. McKinley (6,194 m, North America), Vinson Massif (4,897 m, Antarctica), Kilimanjaro (5,895 m, Africa), Mt. Kosciusko (2,228 m, Australia), Aconcagua (6,959 m, South America); also Elbrus (5,642 m, Caucasus) and Mont Blanc (4,807 m, Alps) in Europe. He was the

neg: Seven Summits reach the Seven Summits.In 1985, Richard Bass, a businessman and amateur mountaineer, was the first man to climb all Seven Summits. In only one year, 1983, he climbed six peaks: Aconcagua, Denali, Kilimanjaro, Mt. Elbrus, Mt. Vinson and Mt. Kosciuszko. All of these climbs he did together with his companion Frank Wells and different mountain guides. Beginning in 1983, Bass and Wells made various guided attempts to climb Mt. Everest, the highest and most difficult peak in the list. On 30 April 1985, Bass reached the summit of Mt. Everest in a party without Wells, guided by the American professional

neg: Lakpa Gelu Sherpa, who had climbed Mt Everest along with another record holder climber Apa Sherpa in 2004, reacted. Petitioner Lakpa Gelu, who is now in US, was not available for comment. It is almost certain that the Sherpa mountaineer will be formally stripped of his title of the world's fastest Mt Everest summitteer soon. “The Department of Tourism will act as per the court ruling,” DOT's Director General Dinesh Bhattarai said, adding, “The DoT has not formally received the court order.” Follow The Himalayan Times on Twitter and Facebook In addition to over a dozen Everest summits, Lhakpa has also summitted

neg: 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. Everest should stand for human freedoms and dignity, to bolster its territorial claim over Tibet." 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. Everest The 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. Everest was the special route of the torch relay as part of the 2008 Summer Olympics taking place in China. Torchbearers reached Mt. Everest at 9.20 in the morning (local time) on May 8, in parallel with the Shenzhen route. Another name for the climb is the Beijing Olympics Torch Relay Qomolangma Leg. The route taking the Olympic torch to the summit of the world's tallest peak was a side spur of

neg: Alexander Kellas different altitudes. He had concluded that Mt Everest could be ascended by men of extreme physical and mental constitution without supplementary oxygen if the physical difficulties of the mountain were not too great." In 1978, Kellas' suggestion was verified by Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler when they made the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. However, Kellas was also one of the earliest scientists to suggest use of supplemental oxygen on high mountains such as Mount Everest; the first ascent of Everest and most subsequent ascents (as well as some ascents of lower peaks) have done so. A

neg: Thame, Nepal Thame, Nepal Thame and its neighbouring Thameteng (upper Thame) are small Sherpa villages in Namche VDC of the Solukhumbu District in Nepal. These were the last year-round villages on the salt trading route that existed between Tibet, Nepal and India. It is the home to many famous Sherpa mountaineers, including Apa Sherpa, who holds the world record for summiting Everest 21 times. It was also a childhood home of Tenzing Norgay, who was (with Sir Edmund Hillary) one of the first men to climb Mt Everest. It is also where the famous Lama Zopa Rinpoche, the Lawudo Lama, head of

neg: Lincoln Hall (climber) partnership, setting the stage for their Himalayan mountaineering careers including their 1984 Mount Everest Expedition. After Dunagiri, Hall's mountaineering career went from strength to strength as he participated in and led numerous climbing adventures around the world, including many first ascents by Australian climbers. Amongst these were two expeditions to climb Mount Everest in Nepal (including the first Australian ascent in 1984); the first ascent of Mt Minto in the Admiralty Mountains of Antarctica (1998); and ascents of other notable peaks including Annapurna II (7963m) in Nepal, Makalu (8481m) on the China-Nepal border, and Carstensz Pyramid in Irian Jaya, Indonesia.

neg: 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. Everest 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. Everest The 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. Everest was the special route of the torch relay as part of the 2008 Summer Olympics taking place in China. Torchbearers reached Mt. Everest at 9.20 in the morning (local time) on May 8, in parallel with the Shenzhen route. Another name for the climb is the Beijing Olympics Torch Relay Qomolangma Leg. The route taking the Olympic torch to the summit of the world's tallest peak was a side spur of the main relay, whilst the main relay continued elsewhere in China. It was the

neg: Lakpa Gelu two others in December, 2013. The summit time is generally counted once a climber leaves from the base camp for the summit and returns. Many veteran climbers considered that climbing Mt Everest in eight or 10 hours was a mere joke. There were no liaison officer's report as well as photographic evidence to show that Sherpa was at the top of Mt Everest within the stated timeframe, SC order stated. The Guinness World Records had also awarded Sherpa with the certificate of the fastest climber after ‘thoroughly verifying’ his claims in 2004. “I am not aware of the SC order,”

neg: Arvind Raturi Camp II, Camp III and Camp IV (South Col) and summitted on 19 May 2013 at 0730 hrs (IST). The NCC Mt Everest Expedition Team 2013 was welcomed by Director General of NCC Lt Gen P.S. Bhalla who remarked that history was created by this young team to be the "First pure NCC Expedition to summit the pinnacle of glory "The Mount Everest". "Climbing Everest is one thing but climbing it in real mountaineering style is what the NCC team achieved" said Col. Sharma, leader of the NCC Everest Expedition 2013. The team was congratulated by Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan

neg: Matt Moniz Festival, Frozen River Film Festival, and Arnold Sports Film Festival. In 2014 Moniz's father, Michael Moniz, announced a spring expedition to attempt back-to-back-to-back summits of three 8,000-meter peaks, Cho Oyu, Mt. Everest, and Lhotse, in less than 15 days. The expedition was dubbed "The Triple 8" and the team originally planned a first-ever ski descent of the Lhotse Couloir. The team was on Cho Oyu during the 16 April avalanche on Mt. Everest and, out of respect for the Sherpas who lost their lives, reevaluated their plans. On 17 May Moniz successfully summited Cho Oyu. On 24 May 2014, Moniz,

neg: Mount Everest due to the Olympic torch relay being taken to the summit of Mount Everest. Mt. Everest has two main climbing routes, the southeast ridge from Nepal and the north ridge from Tibet, as well as many other less frequently climbed routes. Of the two main routes, the southeast ridge is technically easier and more frequently used. It was the route used by Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953 and the first recognised of 15 routes to the top by 1996. This was, however, a route decision dictated more by politics than by design, as the Chinese border was closed

neg: Nepalese rupee Gyanendra revert to Nepal sarkar (“Nepalese Government”), thus omitting the reference to the king. In October 2007, a 500 rupee note was issued on which the king’s portrait was replaced by Mt. Everest. This reflects the historic change from a kingdom to a republic which took place in May 2008 in Nepal. Further notes of 5, 10, 20, 50, 100 and 1000 rupees with Mt. Everest and without reference to the king in their legends followed in 2008. The first issues of the 500 and 1000 rupee notes were printed on paper which still had the king's crowned portrait as

neg: Rob DesLauriers the first person to ski the highest summits on all seven continents; with Rob providing video documentation of her feat. With Kit, DesLauriers has skied down Vinson Massif in Antarctica, and Mount Everest. The couple live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with their children. Rob DesLauriers Rob DesLauriers (born January 25, 1965 in Vermont) is an American businessman and property developer who was one of the originators of extreme skiing. He has skied from the summit of Mt. Everest and developed two luxury condominium hotels at the base of Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. DesLauriers early start with skiing and resort management

neg: Chris Davenport Freeride Contest, 2nd Place, Verbier, Switz 2006 Powder Magazine Reader’s Poll Award 2007 Everest Award Winner- Expedition of the Year (14ers) 2007 Red Bull Jungfrau Staffette Champion Davenport was the first person to ski all 54 of Colorado's peaks over 14,000 foot elevation in one year. In 2015, Davenport, along with his two ski partners Ted and Christy Mahon, successfully climbed and skied the 100 highest peaks in Colorado. Davenport has been described as one of a "handful of skiers worldwide who climb Mt. Everest and other Himalayan peaks alpine style.They just clicked into their skis on the world's most

neg: 2008 Summer Olympics summit of Mt. Everest reaching the summit from the 8,300-meter base camp. The relay was televised live on CCTV state television, and globally. On the summit, banners of the Olympic slogans were unfurled, and the first and last two torch-bearers were female Tibetan mountaineers. On March 13, China announced it would restrict world mountaineers from climbing Everest and Cho Oyu over concerns that Tibet activists may try to disrupt plans for the climb. John Ackerly, president of the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet, criticized the climb as an attempt by the PRC to legitimize Chinese rule: "Beijing is using the Olympics torch ceremony, which

neg: Serhan Poçan of him, who was also on the peak of Mt. Everest along with him on the same day. Serhan Poçan Serhan Poçan (1970) is a Turkish mountaineer and a summiter of Mount Everest. He was born on April 11, 1970 in Konya, Turkey. Serhan graduated Middle East Technical University, Ankara with a BS degree in Mathematics. Currently, he is working as a software expert. He was the leader of the first Turkish expedition to climb Mount Everest, a team of six men and four women, who all reached the summit. Serhan made the summit with five other members on the

neg: Malavath Purna Malavath Purna Malavath Purna (also called Malavath Poorna, Purna Malavath, or Poorna Malavath; born 10 June 2000) is an Indian mountaineer from Nizamabad district, Telangana. On 25 May 2014, Poorna scaled the highest peak of Mount Everest and, aged 13 years and 11 months, became the youngest Indian and the youngest girl in the world to have reached the summit of Everest. The youngest boy to summit Mt. Everest is Jordan Romero, who reached the summit at age 13 years and 10 months. She was accompanied by Sandhanapalli Anand Kumar from Khammam. She scaled Mt. Elbrus, the highest peak in

neg: Alex Harz an Athlete Brand Ambassador for Honey Stinger, a honey-based energy and health food products company headquartered in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. 2018 brought two of Alex's past endeavors together, high-altitude mountaineering and documentary-style filmmaking, for his newest media production titled 'THE QUEST: Nepal'. THE QUEST: Nepal is the first of an ongoing TV - Film Series titled 'THE QUEST', and documents an iconic climb of Mt. Everest while taking the audience through an immersive cinematic journey into the rarely seen stories, fascinating culture and amazing landscapes of Nepal. On May 21, 2018 Alex successfully summited Mt. Everest as part of THE

neg: Tim Macartney-Snape five days. They were reported missing and when the expedition eventually returned they received significant publicity. In July 1984, a small Australian team headed to the north side of Mt Everest where they prepared and ascended an unclimbed route on the north face, climbing without bottled oxygen in a lightweight alpine style and without the help of high altitude porters. On 3 October 1984, climbing in cross-country ski boots as substitutes for his high altitude climbing boots that had been lost in an earlier avalanche, Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer became the first Australians to climb Mt Everest, an achievement for

neg: Lene Gammelgaard disrupted by the peace process and UNICEF. She shared her experiences of being victimized by the international adoption and humanitarian process in her book "Mitlivskamp" "The struggle of my life”. She says “"Everest and “fighting for my daughter” has taught me the importance of determination and never giving up. Quitting is not in my vocabulary"”. In 2008 she broadcast "Storm over Everest", a documentary by US film maker David Breashears, with the mountaineers who were caught in the death zone on Everest May 1996. Later that year Gammelgaard was awarded the Mt. Everest Golden Jubilee Medal by Nepals Government. In

neg: Lene Gammelgaard their potential and mobilize their leadership and teams. She was the 35th woman and the first Scandinavian woman to climb Mt. Everest and reach the peak via the South East Ridge route. She accomplished this feat on 10 May 1996 as part of Scott Fischers' Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition. This is one of the most remembered expeditions in the history of Mt Everest. "Climbing High", her bestselling book to date, has been translated into 13 languages. She was portrayed in the film "Everest" (2015) by actress Charlotte Bøving. Lene was born in Copenhagen Denmark, to Kirsten Nielsen, a sociotherapeut and Helge

neg: Mount Everest north side of Everest lies Rongbuk Monastery, which has been called the "sacred threshold to Mount Everest, with the most dramatic views of the world." For Sherpas living on the slopes of Everest in the Khumbu region of Nepal, Rongbuk Monastery is an important pilgrimage site, accessed in a few days of travel across the Himalayas through Nangpa La. Miyolangsangma, a Tibetan Buddhist ""Goddess of Inexhaustible Giving"", is believed to have lived at the top of Mt Everest. According to Sherpa Buddhist monks, Mt Everest is Miyolangsangma's palace and playground, and all climbers are only partially welcome guests, having arrived

neg: 1952 Swiss Mount Everest expedition to Mt. Everest were remarkable, and exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. At the first attempt, it had opened up a new route to the peak of Everest, and it had reached an extraordinary height on the southwestern ridge in difficult conditions. In the opinion of the extremely critical (?) Marcel Kurz, this expedition could almost be compared to a victory. It paved the way for further successes by other expeditions. The expedition named the Geneva Spur rock formation, between the Western Cwm and the South Col. During the 1956 Swiss Everest–Lhotse expedition, Geneva Spur was the location of the

neg: Vladas Vitkauskas first to raise the same national flag on each of them, in his case the Lithuanian flag. He organised his own trip to the Himalaya and climbed Mt. Everest alone, having registered as a photographer of the Nepalese Women Everest Expedition. He also made solo climbs to the peaks of Mt. McKinley and Aconcagua. Vitkauskas has also climbed the highest peaks in the former Soviet Union: Mt. Communism (7,495 m, now Ismoil Somoni) and Korzhenevskaya (7,105 m) in 1989 and Lenin (7,134 m, now Avicenna) and Khan Tengri (6,995 m) in 1990. He participated and organised expeditions to the mountains

neg: Romi Garduce summit of Mt. Everest, his third Seven Summits Peak after Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua. Garduce attempted to reach the peak of Mount Everest in an expedition sponsored by GMA Network concurrently with Leo Oracion's team, the First Philippine Mount Everest Expedition (FPMEE) and principally sponsored by ABS-CBN. On the North side of Mount Everest was Dale Abenojar without network sponsor and corporate financial support. On May 19, 2006, Garduce reached the summit of Mount Everest from the south ridge after Leo Oracion and Erwin Emata. However, Mount Everest chronicler Elizabeth Hawley said that another Filipino climber, Dale Abenojar, is the first

neg: Michael Moniz 8,000+ foot peaks within weeks of one another. That May, he successfully reached the summit of Mt. Everest and Lhotse (the world's fourth highest mountain) within 24 hours of each other. Upon this ascent, Moniz had climbed four of the Seven Summits. In 2014 Moniz again announced a spring expedition to attempt back-to-back-to-back summits of three 8,000-meter peaks, Cho Oyu, Everest, and Lhotse, in less than 15 days. The team originally planned a first-ever ski descent of the Lhotse Couloir. In May Moniz successfully summited Cho Oyu. The team changed their expedition plans after the April 16 Mt. Everest avalanche

neg: Musa Ibrahim list names MA Muhith and Nishat Majumder as the first Bangladeshi male and female to have climbed Mt Everest successfully. MA Muhith and Nishat Majumder also expressed doubts about Ibrahim’s claims. However, Ibrahim said that there had been a conspiracy against him and NMA was influenced by the conspirator. The issue over the claim was moved to a court in Dhaka. O'Mahoney, who had followed Ibrahim towards the Everest summit, claimed that he saw him at the third step of the route, the last barrier to the Everest summit. Musa Ibrahim Musa Ibrahim () is a Bangladeshi mountaineer and an

neg: Mostafa Salameh to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania raising $1,400,000.00 for the benefit of the KHCC. He has authored the book, "Dreams of a Refugee: From the Middle East to Mount Everest". Mostafa Salameh Mostafa Salameh, (born June25, 1970) is a Jordanian mountaineer who has completed the Seven Summits, including Mount Everest in 2008. Salameh is also a motivational speaker. Salameh first became interested in mountaineering in 2004 while working as a food and beverage manager at the Sheraton Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. His interest started when he had a dream of himself praying on top of Mt. Everest. His

neg: Steve Watkins (politician) rank of Captain. He began running dogs in Alaska in 2000, and competed in the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. He finished in 58th place in 2015, and did not finish the race in March 2018. In an attempt to become the first person to race in the Iditarod and climb Mt. Everest, he was caught up in the April 2015 Nepal earthquake. While he was at elevation, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck Nepal, killing over 8,500 people. Twenty-two people died on Everest, including six from Watkins' team. It was the deadliest day in the history of Mount Everest. Watkins

neg: Everest Vietnam Everest Vietnam Everest 2008 - Vietnam Spirit To The World (EVN - Vietnamese: Chinh phục Everest - Tinh thần Việt Nam hòa cùng thế giới) is a reality show in co-operation between Ho Chi Minh City Television (HTV) and Lasta company to bring the very first Vietnamese people to Mt. Everest with the message "Vietnam Spirit To The World". Everest is a legendary mountain that everybody wants to discover, and further, to conquer. EVN 2008 is the event to bring Vietnamese to conquer "the roof of the world" as well as a chance for Vietnam to tell the world that

neg: Garrett Madison leading a team of climbers up Mt Everest when the April 2015 Nepal earthquake triggered an avalanche, resulting in the deadliest day in Everest's history. The team's doctor, Eve Girawong, was one of the American fatalities. Madison holds multiple high altitude mountaineering world records such as being the only person to climb Mt Everest and nearby Lhotse in a day, 3 times. He is the only American to climb K2 twice, and personally has led more climbers to the summits of Mt Everest and K2 than anyone. Outside Magazine's story of the deadly September 2012 avalanche on Manaslu is supported

neg: Tengboche Everest Base camp. There is no place in the world more spectacular than the Everest region. It is where four of the world's six tallest peaks Mt. Everest (8848), Mt. Lhotse (8516m) Mt. Makalu (8481m), and Cho Oyu (8201m) resides. Beside interesting festival, this trek is the most spectacular trek in the land of the Himalayas which offers scenic mountain views, and opportunities to get a real experience into the life of world-famous climbers (the Sherpa people). The trek offers the opportunities to see the Khumbu mountain ranges, around Sagarmatha National Park a world heritage site, the life style of

neg: Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar while the first floor has archaeological objects found in Ita Fort, Noksparbat and Malinithan in West Siang district. Apart from its collection, the museum runs a workshop for traditional cane products at its Handicrafts Centre. The museum shop sells tribal handicrafts. In 2011, Tapi Mra, the first person from the state to scale Mt. Everest, donated his entire expedition gear to the museum. Jawaharlal Nehru Museum, Itanagar The Jawaharlal Nehru State Museum also referred as Jawaharlal Nehru Museum is the state museum of Arunachal Pradesh, in Itanagar. Established in the 1980s, it showcases aspects of tribal life of Arunachal Pradesh,

neg: Lysle Turner Lysle Turner Lysle Turner is an adventurer, businessman, international speaker, and activist for Huntington's disease. He successfully climbed Mt. Everest on May 19, 2016 in the name of Huntington's disease, planting a flag with the names of 200 people whose lives have been claimed by Huntington's disease, on the summit. At the time of his summit, at 26 years old, he became the youngest South African to summit Mt. Everest. Turner was at base camp on Mt. Everest when the 2015 earthquake struck where he helped in search and rescue of injured climbers. He currently lives in Pretoria, South Africa.

neg: Bill Borger Bill Borger Bill Borger Jr. (born December 15, 1974) is a Calgary-based businessman, adventurer, and Canadian Chartered Accountant. On September 9, 2000 Borger became the first Calgarian to successfully swim the English Channel. As a part of the English Channel swim Borger raised $100,000 for the Canadian Mental Health Association. On May 11, 2011 Borger became the first Canadian to have both swum the English Channel and to have climbed Mt. Everest. The Mt. Everest climb was used to raise funds for the Calgary Handibus Association; for this charity Borger raised $400,000. Borger's website states, as of June 6, 2011

neg: Richard Bass Resort with investor Ted Johnson in 1971. He was its sole proprietor until he sold his stake in May 2014. Together with Frank Wells, one-time president of The Walt Disney Company, Bass decided to pursue the adventure challenge of summiting the high point on each of the seven continents: Denali, North America; Aconcagua, South America; Mt. Elbrus, Europe; Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa; Vinson Massif, Antarctica; Mount Kosciuszko, Australia; and Mt. Everest, Asia. The pair successfully completed all but Everest, being rebuffed there in a first attempt. Later, on his third attempt, Bass became the first person to achieve all Seven Summits

neg: Jai Vardhan Bahuguna at Mt Everest in 1984 was in an expedition that is better remembered for putting the first Indian woman, Bachendri Pal on the summit. It was decided that the other members of the expedition, i.e. Maj. Bahuguna, Maj. Kiran Inder Kumar, Magan Bissa and Dr. Minoo Meta would form the second summit party which would make summit only if resources permitted. The second summit party opted to give their reserve oxygen to Bachendri Pal, so that she could summit the peak. The 35 member Army expedition of October 1985, was Maj. Bahuguna's second attempt to scale the peak. The expedition

neg: Mount Everest By 11 May 2016 the lines were fixed on the south side of Everest, after which several hundred climbers would make it up in the critical weather windows. Alan Arnette published his Everest report by year end, based on results for the now 93-year-old Elizabeth Hawley, which were released in December 2016. For 2016 her records indicate 641 made it to the summit early 2016. On 11 May 2016, nine Sherpas summited Mount Everest. The next day another six persons reached the top. These were the first summitings since 2014, when 106 made it to the top. By 13 May,

neg: Dimitar Ilievski-Murato Dimitar Ilievski-Murato Dimitar Ilievski - Murato () (1953 in Bitola – May 10, 1989 in Mount Everest) was an alpinist from the Republic of Macedonia representing SFR Yugoslavia, the first Macedonian ever to climb the highest peak of the world, Mount Everest. He died on the descent of Mt. Everest. Murato, as he was known in his native town Bitola, reached the top of Mount Everest on May 10, 1989 as part of a larger Yugoslavian expedition, of which only few alpinists succeeded to reach the peak. He is noted as the 264th summiter of Mount Everest. After reaching the

neg: Mount Kailash headwaters area is typified by wide scale faulting of metamorphosed late Cretaceous to mid Cenozoic sedimentary rocks which have been intruded by igneous Cenozoic granitic rocks. Mt. Kailash appears to be a metasedimentary roof pendant supported by a massive granite base. The Cenozoic rocks represent offshore marine limestones deposited before subduction of the Tethys oceanic crust. These sediments were deposited on the southern margin of the Asia block during subduction of the Tethys oceanic crust prior to the collision between the Indian and Asian continents. Mount Everest is 8848 metre (29029 ft) in height and its summit has been scaled

neg: Mostafa Salameh Mostafa Salameh Mostafa Salameh, (born June25, 1970) is a Jordanian mountaineer who has completed the Seven Summits, including Mount Everest in 2008. Salameh is also a motivational speaker. Salameh first became interested in mountaineering in 2004 while working as a food and beverage manager at the Sheraton Hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. His interest started when he had a dream of himself praying on top of Mt. Everest. His first climb in the Himalaya was in April 2004, when he tried to climb Mera Peak () in Nepal, but had to retreat just from the top because of illness. His ascent

neg: Arunima Sinha as preparation for her ascent of Everest Sinha and Susan Mahout, a USAF instructor, who had together climbed Mount Chaser Sangria () in 2012 under the guidance of Hendrick Pal started their ascent of Mount Everest. After a hard toil of 17 hours, Sinha reached the summit of Mount Everest at 10:55 am on 21 May 2013, as part of the Tata Group-sponsored "Eco Everest Expedition", becoming the first female amputee to scale Everest. She took 52 days to reach the summit. She wrote a small message thanking the Almighty on a wrapped cloth and pressed it in the snow.

neg: Rebreather in experimental closed-circuit oxygen systems – the first on Mt. Everest in 1938. A high rate of system failures due to extreme cold has not been solved. Breathing pure oxygen results in an elevated partial pressure of oxygen in the blood: a climber breathing pure oxygen at the summit of Mt. Everest has a greater oxygen partial pressure than breathing air at sea level. This results in being able to exert greater physical effort at altitude. An atmospheric diving suit is a small one-man articulated submersible of roughly anthropomorphic form, with limb joints which allow articulation under external pressure while

neg: Tashi and Nungshi Malik to conquer: Mt Everest (World's & Asia's highest peak) May 2013 Mt Elbrus (Europe's highest peak) Aug 2013 Mt Aconcagua (S. America's highest peak) Jan 2014 Mt Carstensz Pyramid (Australasia's highest peak) Mar 2014 (World's youngest and 2nd pair of twins) Denali (N America's highest peak) Jun 2014 Mt Kilimanjaro (Africa's highest peak) Feb 2012 and O3 Jul 2015 By climbing each of the seven summits together, they have achieved unique distinction of becoming World's First siblings and first twins to do so. After the Seven Summits, on 28 December 2014 they reached South Pole on skies and on 21

neg: Everest Re crop, professional liability, and accident insurance. As of 2016, 70% of premiums were from reinsurance, with the remainder in insurance (Total premiums were ). 61% of premiums were from property insurance and reinsurance, with the remainder from casualty insurance and reinsurance. In reinsurance, 52% of premiums were from the United States, 17% were from Europe, 15% were from Latin America, and the rest were from the rest of the world. Everest Re sells catastrophe bonds to investors through a variety of subsidiaries, including Mt. Logan Re and Kilimanjaro Re. Because of the business it is in, Everest Re profits are

neg: David Lim (mountaineer) Mt Everest, designed for adult learning outcomes. He earned the Certified Speaking Professional (CSP) credential in 2009, making him the first Singaporean to acquire this amongst the 600 CSPs in the 6000-strong Global Speaker Federation. In 2013, together with 30 leading global speakers, he received the designation of CSPGlobal (now known as the Global Speaking Fellow) Mountaineering guru David Lim on the complex relationship between climbers and sherpas Mountaineering guru explains the complex climber-sherpa relationship David Lim (mountaineer) David Lim (born 1964) is a Singaporean mountaineer and motivational speaker who led the first Singapore Mount Everest Expedition in 1998. Between

neg: Kangshung Face first-time ever from the Dalai Lama of Tibet to attempt ascents of Everest. Mallory and Bullock were led by local yak herders to the east side the mountain, passing through the high "Langma La" and the rhododendron forests of "Kama Chu". At that time of the year in August, there were meadows of flowers and rich vegetation in the valleys and beside the Kangshung Glacier. In 1980, a young American climber, Andy Harvard, undertook a modern reconnaissance of the East Face. Today, there are numerous trekking companies that guide clients to the Kangshung Glacier where they can view Mt. Everest.

neg: Santosh Yadav Santosh Yadav Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice, and the first woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993. During her Everest mission of 1992 she saved the life of another climber, Mohan Singh, by sharing oxygen with him. She was born in Adygreg village in Rewari district of Haryana state, India. She attended Maharani College in Jaipur, where she was able to see mountaineers from her room. She was inspired by

neg: Laurie Skreslet won two awards- Canadian best seller and Children’s Choice 2004. In 2007 Skreslet’s movie The Climb was released which helped convey that personal commitment, teamwork, preparation, planning, and dedication to excellence was the key to success on Everest. He has had forty five high altitude expeditions-including over thirty expeditions to Mt. Aconcagua in Argentina, highest peak in the Western Hemisphere. He is a certified ACMG guide - Association of Canadian Mountain Guides. He also helped organize a team in 1986 which allowed Sharon Wood became to become first woman in the Western hemisphere to summit Everest. As a motivational speaker,

neg: Ganesh Jena Ganesh Jena Ganesh Chandra Jena (born 5 May 1972) is a mountaineer from Odisha, India. He reached the peak of Mount Everest on 18 May 2011 as the first male from the eastern state of Orissa. Two other Indians in his team were Amit Kumar from Haryana and Jackie Jack from Rajasthan. The team was headed by Anshu Jamsenpa, 32. After Kalpana Dash, Ganesh Jena achieved this feat as the second Oriya and the first male person from Odisha “Willpower, patience and determination hold the key to success. My target is to scale the Everest twice in one season,” he

neg: Ashish Mane a master's degree in Computer Science. He did his basic mountaineering course from Nehru Institute of Mountaineering (NIM) at Uttarkashi. His fascination towards mountains and trekking in Konkan region, inspired him to climb in Himalayas. Ashish has received following awards Ashish Mane Ashish Mane (Born 14 August 1990) is one of the prominent professional mountaineer from India. He has scaled Mt. [Mount Everest|Everest]] (2012)., Mt. [Lhotse]] (2013), Mt. Makalu (2014) and Mt Manaslu (2017). Ashish is the only climber from Maharashtra as of now, to ascend four of the fourteen Eight-thousander|peaks over 8,000 metres means about 26,000 ft above sea

neg: Alex Staniforth Alex Staniforth Alex Staniforth (born 1995, in Chester, Cheshire, England) is an adventurer, speaker, author and charity ambassador from Cheshire, United Kingdom. He has made two attempts to climb Mt. Everest and completed numerous endurance challenges. His debut book 'Icefall' was published in March 2016 and is an autobiographical account of his attempts to climb Everest. In July 2017, Staniforth became the fastest person to climb all 100 UK county tops in 72 days. Staniforth was born in Chester, Cheshire in 1995. He grew up in Kelsall and attended Tarporley High School and Sixth Form College. Staniforth first attempted to

neg: Expedition Everest the outside of the ties rather than on the inside. This was the first large-scale installation of such a system. Although moderate in height and length by contemporary standards, Expedition Everest was the first ride for Disney to have its trains travel both forward and backward. This is accomplished through two sets of track switches, one before the rear segment and one after. This was the second Disney roller coaster to run backwards, the first being Indiana Jones et le Temple du Péril: Backwards! at Disneyland Resort Paris (2000–2004). Expedition Everest, however, was the first Disney roller coaster to switch

neg: Nirupama Pandey Nirupama Pandey Wing Commander Nirupama Pandey is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first person from Bihar to have scaled Mount Everest on May 25, 2011 at 1015 hrs (IST). Nirupama was part of the first-ever all-woman IAF team comprising flight lieutenant Nivedita Choudhary and flight lieutenant Rajika Sharma. Her other climbs include Mt Stok Kangri (6121m) and Mt Gulab Kangri (6100m) in Leh, Mt Kamet (7,757m) and Mt Abhigamin (7357m) in Garhwal and Mt Saser Kangri I (7672m) in Ladakh. Nirupama Pandey was born in the village of Jamo Jalalpur in Siwan district, the daughter of Shri Rajendra Pandey

neg: Presidential Range some of the world's highest mountains, including K2 and Everest. Mt. Washington, long home of the highest winds recorded on the surface of the Earth at , is the tallest at , followed by neighboring peaks Mt. Adams at and Mt. Jefferson at . The range is almost entirely in Coos County. The highest mountains in the Presidential Range are named principally for U.S. presidents, with the tallest mountain (Mt. Washington) named for the first president, the second tallest (Mt. Adams) for the second president, and so on. However, due to a surveying error, Mt. Monroe is actually taller than

neg: Lene Gammelgaard two drug-treatment centers, developed and led a therapy program for professionals and co-dependents aimed at changing individuals’ mental attitudes and behavior towards self-responsibility in one-week processes. In 1995 she embarked on an expedition with Scott Fischer and "Mountain Madness" to the Karakorum mountain range, Broad Peak base camp and Gondogoro Pass in Pakistan. It was during this expedition on the glacier below K2 that Fischer invited her to climb Mt. Everest in the spring of 1996 with him. 1996 saw her reach the summit of Everest and safely return, on an expedition which claimed many lives, including Fischer who died

neg: Arvind Raturi is the highest peak which is permitted to be climbed in India. Nine cadets were finally selected and sent for Winter Acclimatization training to Siachen Glacier exposing them to extreme cold conditions where minimum temperatures fell to minus 50 (fifty) degrees Celsius. The NCC Mt Everest Expedition Team 2013 was led by Col S.C. Sharma, a renowned mountaineer, with 18 (eighteen) members: nine cadets from the NCC and nine Indian Army personnel. The team of 18 members consisted of 14 climbing members and four support staff. Eight NCC cadets and four Army personnel scaled Mount Everest in two teams on

neg: Santosh Yadav nine-nation international climbing camp-cum-expedition to Nun Kun in 1989. Yadav was awarded the Padma Shri in 2000. Santosh Yadav Santosh Yadav is an Indian mountaineer. She is the first woman in the world to climb Mount Everest twice, and the first woman to successfully climb Mt. Everest from Kangshung Face. She climbed the peak first in May 1992 and then again in May 1993. During her Everest mission of 1992 she saved the life of another climber, Mohan Singh, by sharing oxygen with him. She was born in Adygreg village in Rewari district of Haryana state, India. She attended Maharani

neg: Earl Denman Earl Denman Earl Denman was a Canadian mountaineer who attempted to summit Mount Everest in 1947. His attempt was very different from the large-scale efforts by British mountaineers around the same time. He had little experience, having only climbed the smaller Virunga mountains in East Africa before this expedition. He did not have much money, equipment, or fuel, and did not enter Tibet with permission. Two Sherpas (one of whom was Tenzing Norgay, later to make the first ascent of Everest) joined his attempt. Norgay later said that he knew Denman had little chance of succeeding, but that he agreed

neg: Mount Everest the age of 80. In 1975, Junko Tabei, a Japanese woman, became the first woman to summit Mount Everest. The Polish climber Andrzej Zawada headed the first winter ascent of Mt. Everest, the first winter ascent of an eight-thousander. The team of 20 Polish climbers and 4 Sherpas established a base camp on Khumbu Glacier in early January 1980. On 15 January, the team managed to set up Camp III at 7150 meters above sea level, but further action was stopped by hurricane-force winds. The weather improved after 11 February, when Leszek Cichy, Walenty Fiut and Krzysztof Wielicki set up

neg: Seven Summits mountaineer David Breashears. He then co-authored the book "Seven Summits", which covered the undertaking. Later in 1985, American mountaineer Gerry Roach became the second person to climb the Seven Summits. In 1986, the Canadian mountaineer Patrick Morrow became the first man to climb the Seven Summits in the Carstensz version (Messner list). He climbed Denali (1977), Aconcagua (1981), Mt. Everest (1982), Kilimanjaro (1983), Mt. Kosciuszko (1983), Mt. Vinson (1985), Mt. Elbrus (1985) and finally the Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid) on May 7, 1986. Morrow was also the first to complete both lists (Bass and Messner). In 1990, Rob Hall and

neg: Matt Moniz his climbing partner Willie Benegas and a small team of Sherpas successfully summited Makalu Moniz is the 14th American and youngest climber to summit Makalu. In April 2015, Moniz and his team left for Nepal for a third expedition: an anticipated summit of Mt. Everest followed by a summit of Lhotse and then an attempt to ski the Lhotse Couloir. As they approached Mt. Everest on April 25, 2015 an earthquake struck Nepal and triggered an avalanche from Pumori into Everest Base Camp. Moniz took cover behind a boulder as a 200 mph powder blast hit the camp. At least

neg: Rick Agnew a deadly night (including a tent fire and a death close by) at high camp. The retreat down the mountain the next day was memorable to Aconcagua’s base camp which was also devastated and many teams lost the majority of their equipment. After many successful summits throughout the world (North and South America, the Andes and in the Alps), Agnew was one of six Australians and two Britons who made it to the summit of Mt Everest on 25 May 2010, with an expedition led by South Australian Duncan Chessell. Agnew finished the last of the Seven Summits with Mt

neg: Adrian Ballinger can cut the amount of on-site time half compared to a typical Everest summit bid expedition. Ballinger has also gone on climbs sponsored by the Eddie Bauer company. In 2016 and 2017 he went on Everest expeditions with Cory Richards, and in 2017 Adrian reached the summit from the Tibet/China/North route without using bottled oxygen. Ballinger has led clients up Everest, Manaslu, Lhotse, Ama Dablam, Cho Oyu, and Makalu. During the 2010 climbing season on Mt. Everest, Ballinger summited the mountain twice in 3 weeks, first on May 5 and then again on May 22. On his May 5 summit,

neg: Ratnesh Pandey Ratnesh Pandey Ratnesh Pandey (born 12 May 1985) is an Indian mountaineer, who climbed Mount Everest in 2016 and first in the world to recite the national anthem of his country at the highest peak of Mount Everest. He is the first mountaineer since Madhya Pradesh to scale Mount Everest. He also holds a Guinness World Record for his motorbike stunts. He received the "Khel Alankaran" award by the Government of Madhya Pradesh in November 2016. Pandey is from Satna, Madhya Pradesh. He is a BBA graduate. He completed his basic and advanced mountaineering course from Atal Bihari Vajpayee Institute

neg: Superman/Shazam: First Thunder break from crime fighting to chat at Mt. Everest, where they discuss their powers and professional lives as superheroes. Superman breaks off the more personal aspects of the conversation, remarking that he prefers to keep his two lives entirely separate. Captain Marvel says he understands, but that he thinks "it kind of stinks". Afterward, they continue working together to thwart the villains Lord Sabbac (who the museum-robbing gang had been attempting to summon all along) and Eclipso. At the end, Superman notes he is glad to have an ally in the Captain who is better suited to battling the supernatural

neg: Khumbu Pasanglhamu a zone (division) of Eastern development region of Nepal. Khumbu Pasanglhamu is located in Solukhumbu District, which name also bear Khumbu. "Solukhumbu" is a combination of two words; "Solu" and "Khumbu". Solu is lower part, while Khumbu is upper part of Solukhumbu District. The "Pasanglhamu" word is taken from Pasang Lhamu Sherpa, who was first Nepalese lady who climbed Mt. Everest, she hailed from Khumbu region. Khumbu Pasanglhamu is situated at coordinates 27.74° N 86.73° E Latitude and longitude. It is on northernmost part of Province, which is highest altitude land on earth, part of higher Himalayas. Geographical condition of

neg: Garrett Madison Mt Everest. Garrett Madison Garrett Madison (born November 3, 1978) is an American mountaineer and guide. Madison began guiding professionally in 1999 on Mount Rainier, and his company, Madison Mountaineering, specializes in climbs on Mount Everest and other high altitude peaks, operates on the highest peaks on all seven continents, and also provides training programs and summit climbs in Washington State. On May 19–20, 2011, he reached the summit of Mt Everest on his fourth successful attempt as expedition leader and guide for Alpine Ascents International, and reached the summit of Lhotse (the fourth highest mountain in the world) 21