2006-06-10 01:22:43 · 7 answers · asked by laura 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
Summit Record Holders:
Longest Stay on top : Babu Chiri Sherpa, who stayed at the summit for twenty one and half hours.
First Climbers : Tenzing Norgay from Nepal and Sir Edmund Percival Hillary from New Zealand, on 5/29/1953 via the South-East Ridge Route
First Nepali Women to Climb : Pasang Llamu Sherpa, on April 22nd, 1993
One of the best climbers : Nepali, Apa Sherpa, climbed Everest 11 times.
Fastest Ascent Babu Chhiri Sherpa on June 21 2000, ascent from south side; Hans Kammerlander May 24,1996, ascent from north side
Youngest Climber : Nepali, Temba Tsheri Age 15 on May 22, 2001
First Women Climber : In 1975 - The first woman to summit Everest was Junko Tabei, a Japanese, who reached the summit via the South-East Ridge route.
Oldest Person to Climb : Japanese climber Yuichiro Miura, 2003
Oldest Women to Climb : Anna Czerwinska May 22, 2000
Largest Group to reach the summit : 50 people on May 2002
First Couple to ever get married on the summit : Nepalese Mona Mulepati and Pem Dorje Sherpa on May 30th 2005
Number of Mount Everest Climbers So Far : About 1,500 men and women from 64 nations
2006-06-10 03:19:06 · answer #1 · answered by Dukie 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many, many people have climbed Mt. Everest, but the first officially recorded climb was done by Sir Edmund Hillary, accompanied by his Sherpa guide, 'Tiger' Tenzig.
But just because the western world has only kept records recently, and then only of western climbers, that doesn't mean no one else climbed it previously, with or without the sanction of the climbing association or the knowledge of the world book of records keepers. I'm sure previous generations of Sherpas climbed it, simply because it was there, which is pretty close to the reason Hillary and all those who followed him did it.
2006-06-10 16:47:32 · answer #2 · answered by old lady 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Between 1921 and 2004, Everest has been climbed by more than 2,200 people from twenty countries. More than 185 have lost their lives, making the odds on not coming down alive about one in eight.
2006-06-10 08:26:55 · answer #3 · answered by Heavn 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sir Edmund Hillary
2006-06-10 08:29:12 · answer #4 · answered by kevin z 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edmund Hillary and his sherpa
2006-06-10 10:53:46 · answer #5 · answered by *Samantha* 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
UP mountaineers
2006-06-10 11:08:32 · answer #6 · answered by Tezuka 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
tenzing and hillary
2006-06-10 08:57:05 · answer #7 · answered by aki_leo24 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋