32% 1.2% 9,159

10 centrespread centrespread 11 SEPTEMBER 27-OCTOBER 03, 2020 SEPTEMBER 27-OCTOBER 03, 2020 THE FIRST TO SUMMIT ALL THE FIRST WOMAN TO THE OLDEST EVERESTER: THE FIRST WEDDING: 14 EIGHT-THOUSANDERS: SUMMIT ALL 14: YUICHIRO MIURA MONI MULEPATI & REINHOLD GERLINDE He had a history of heart trouble and PEM DORJEE SHERPA MESSNER KALTENBRUNNER was 80 years but the Japanese The Nepali couple, who aptly met mountaineer Yuichiro Miura did not during a mountaineering course, In 1986, the legendary Italian The Austrian resident let that stop him from climbing mountaineer became the first of Germany became the became the first to wed on Mount Everest a third time in 2013, breaking Everest. They reached the top in person to scale all 14 mountains first woman to summit all 14 his own record five years ago and over 8,000 m, doing it over a peaks without supplementary May 2005 and stayed there for 40 making him the oldest climber. minutes, exchanging a necklace and decade. He was also the first oxygen in 2010. She However, he could not person to summit Mt Everest solo, summited the final peak, a ring and calling family via descend and had to be satellite phone, to break the news without supplemental oxygen K2, on her fourth attempt airlifted down THE YOUNGEST EVERESTER: POORNA MALAVATH In May 2014, at 13 years, when others her age would have been busy with school, Poorna Malavath became the youngest girl in the world to climb Mt Everest. Her motivation, she said later, was to prove that girls can do anything Ang Rita Sherpa, who died last week, was the first person to climb Mount Everest 10 times. Known as the “Snow Leopard”, all his ascents were made without bottled oxygen. The highest THE MOST FREQUENT mountain peaks in the world, known as the EVERESTER: THE FASTEST TO SUMMIT ALL 14: KAMI RITA SHERPA NIRMAL PURJA “eight-thousanders”, have attracted climbers from all over the world, pushing For some, climbing Mount Everest In 2019, Nepal's Purja became the once in their life might be the summit fastest person to summit all them to set new records like Ang Rita had of their achievements. Nepalese 14 mountains over 8,000 metres, climber Kami Rita Sherpa has done it doing it in an astounding six once done. We look at some of them: a record 24 times. months and six days. :: Indulekha Aravind He started out for his 24th successful The 36-year-old is a former member of climb within just three days of the the Gorkha unit in the British Army 23rd, in May 2019 Climbing the “eight-thousanders” is all the more challenging THE MOST DANGEROUS ENDURING EVEREST because as you go higher, there is less oxygen Annapurna Nanga Parbat K2 The highest peak attracts the most attention $40,000-100,000 5,000 6,000 7,000 8,000 8,091 8, 126 8,611 Cost of a spot on a commercial team metres metres metres 8,848 metres metres metres metres metres % -19 degree Celsius Half as much Air is so thin that Survival times The “death zone,” where (10th tallest) (9th tallest) (2nd tallest) 1.2 No. of successful Overall death rate Summer temperature on Everest, which dips to oxygen as at full acclimatisation plummet, lucid the strongest can survive summits, by among those sea level no longer possible thought is a challenge only for a few days Fatality Rate 32 % Fatality Rate 20% Fatality Rate 29% 9,159 5292 people* attempting a climb -36 degree C in winter (*Till the end of 2018) Source: NZ Herald, BBC, NASA, Chicago Tribune.

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