300 Firsts

[gracemini]

Adventure


First successful conquest of Mount Everest
Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary (New Zealand) via the South-East Ridge Route (1953)

First conquer of Everest via the North Ridge
Chinese team (1960)

First American to conquer the Everest
James Whittaker (1963)

First person to conquer the Everest twice
Nawag Gombu Sherpa. Both of his ascents were via the South east ridge (1965)

First ascent of Everest without bottle oxygen
Peter Haneler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner, (Italy) via the South
East Ridge (197

First couple to conquer the Everest together
Andrej & Marija Stremfelj, Slovenia. Marija was also the first Slovenian woman to climb Everest (1990)

First son of a mountaineer to climb the Everest
Peter Hillary, New Zealand (1990)

First father and son to climb the Everest together
Jean Noel Roche and his son Roche Bertrand aka Zebulon (1990)

First conquest of Everest by two brothers together
Alberto and Felix Inurrategui (1992)

First Pakistani to conquer the Everest
Nazir Sabir (2000)