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List of firsts

This is a list of the first man/woman/animal/object etc., to do something or the first occurrence of an event.

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Mount Everest

  • First recorded deaths on Everest: 7 Sherpas die in avalanche in 1922
  • First successful summit (via the South-East Ridge Route) Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary May 29, 1953
  • First successful summit via the North Ridge by a Chinese team on May 25, 1960
  • First American to reach summit James Whittaker in 1963
  • First The first ascent of the West Ridge on May 22, 1963 Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein . Also the first traverse of the South East Ridge
  • First person to summit Everest twice: Nawang Gombu Sherpa May 20, 1965
  • First woman to summit is Junko Tabei of Japan on 16 May 1975 via the South-East Ridge
  • First woman to summit from the North (Tibet]]tan side is a Tibbettan woman named Phantog.
  • First summit from the South West face on September 24, 1975 are Dougal Haston and Doug Scott
  • First Ascent without bottled oxygen is by Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner (Italy) on the 8th May 1978
  • First European woman and the third woman to summit Everest is Wanda Rutkiewicz
  • First woman to die on Everest is Hannelore Schmatz , after becoming the 4th woman to summit Everest
  • First Winter ascent is by Krzysztof Wielicki of Poland on the 17th February 1980
  • First Indian woman summit was Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984
  • First woman to climb without oxygen was Lydia Bradey of New Zealand on 14th November 1988
  • First true ski descent by Davo Karnicar
  • First snowboard descent by Marco Siffredi
  • First blind person to Summit Everest is Erik Weihenmayer in 2000


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