The youngest man who climbed Mount Everest. Amazing conquest of Mount Everest. Youngest college graduate

Today, May 23, 2013, at 9:05 am (local time), the legendary Japanese climber, 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura, ascended the summit of Everest!

With this ascent, Yuichiro Miura rewrote the age record of the conquerors of Everest, becoming the oldest climber to climb its summit!

Yuichiro Miura climbed Mount Everest with the support of his team, in which his 49-year-old son Gota Miura also took part.
In general, the ascent from the Base Camp took 8 days. The climbers climbed the last dash to the summit from Camp 5 at an altitude of 8.5 thousand meters in seven hours. The final meters of the distance were complicated by constant strong winds. The ascent was accomplished using oxygen cylinders.

Start of Yuichiro Miura's ascent of Mount Everest, May 2013:

"I did it!" Yuichiro said from the summit of Mount Everest over the phone. "I never thought that it was possible to conquer the summit of Everest at the age of 80 years. It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, although I am completely exhausted. Even at the old age of 80 years I can still do something outstanding."

Yuichiro and his team stayed at the top of Mount Everest for about 30 minutes, taking memorable photos, and then began to descend.

But, this record of Yuichiro Miura can last only a few days, because next week he will be able to conquer the summit of Everest, even though just a few days ago he suffered a digestive system disorder.

In addition, the team of Min Bahadur Sherkhan faced financial difficulties when they did not receive the financial assistance promised by the government of Nepal (later, Purna Chandra Bhattarai - the head of the mountaineering department of Nepal said that this financial assistance is still pending in the government).

Yuichiro became a famous conqueror of Everest primarily for his first alpinism in the history of mountaineering downhill skiing in May 1970.
Yuichiro Miura is sometimes called "the man who first skied down Everest", but more often he is given more ridiculous titles, like "the man who first skied (almost head over heels) from Everest."

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It is worth noting that this film won an Oscar in 1975 for Best Documentary.

Note that already in the 2000s, rivalry developed between Yuichiro and Min Bahadur in setting the age record for climbing Mount Everest:

The first to enter the Guinness Book of Records was Yuichiro, who in 2003, at the age of 70, became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest.

In 2008, Yuichiro, at the age of 75, once again climbed Mount Everest with the goal of breaking his own age record; however, literally one day before Yuichiro's ascent, on May 25, 2008, Nepalese climber Min Bahadur Sherchan climbed Mount Everest at the age of 76 years and 340 days, breaking all age records for climbing Mount Everest.

Nevertheless, in 2008, Yuichiro was awarded an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for his conquest of Everest, as the only person in the world to climb Everest twice at the age of more than 70 years.

After his second climb of Mount Everest, Yuichiro planned a "jubilee" ascent at the age of 80; however, in 2009, he was badly injured, falling on alpine skiing: breaking his pelvic bones and left femur. Then, the doctors unequivocally said that they would have to break with climbing the mountains. However, his strong determination and determination to climb Mount Everest refuted the arguments of doctors and skeptics. Just 6 months after the accident, Yuichiro started training again.

By the way, in the Miura family, Yuichiro is not the only record holder, his father, Keizo Miura, is also a very athletic and courageous person.
In 1981, Yuichiro organized an ascent to the highest point in Africa - Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m). Naturally, to go down on skis from there too. This time, Yuichiro was not alone; his father Keizo and son Goto took part in this expedition with him.
In 1981, Keizo he was 77 years old, and 22 years later in 2003, Keizo Miura made an act that earned him a mention in the Guinness Book of Records - he went skiing down the White Valley in Chamonix (France) (there are ski slopes of the highest category of complexity ). Not surprisingly, his grandson Goto was engaged in mogul for many years (this is downhill skiing on a special uneven track) and was the leader of the Japanese national team in this sport.
Yuichiro Miura's later achievements were just as "modest." In 1983 he participated in the "Seven Summits" program (ascents to the highest points of all continents) by Rick Ridgway and Dick Bass and on November 30 skied Mount Vinson (5140 m) in Antarctica. And in 1985, Elbrus (5642 m) and Aconcagua (6960 m) lay under his skis.

Yuichiro Miura was born in October 1932 in Aomori Prefecture (north of Honshu Island). His father raised him in an atmosphere of rigor and respect for physical culture. A versatile athlete and diligent student, Yuichiro entered Hokkaido University in Sapporo. He studied to be a veterinarian. However, at this time, a real ski boom began on the northern Japanese island. Physically strong and agile, Yuichiro turned out to be the strongest skier in the university, city and then country. Participation in international competitions did not bring much fame, to reach the level of the strongest athletes from the Alpine countries, however, he met with differently thinking people who opened other horizons for him.

Miura decided on the most important step - he became a professional. He started at commercial events in the USA, where he impressed everyone with his composure and absolute fearlessness. Competitions did not bring satisfaction, either material or moral. Yuichiro decided to seek his fortune in the newly emerging world of skiing extremes. The samurai achieved absolute perfection in mastering himself and his weapons. Miura's weapon was skis. He trained selflessly, took risks and won. Soon a series of exploits began that made him a national hero. World speed record on the glacier in Cervinia (172 km / h), the first ski descent from Fujiyama (1966), the first descent from McKinley (1967).

And finally, in 1970, it was Everest's turn. Let's say right away that Miura did not descend from the summit of Everest (this was done much later by Kammerlander and Karnichar). The highest point was the South Col (about 8000 meters). However, what he did is unlikely to be repeated. Miura did not slide down the slope or traverse the slope, preparing for a jump turn at the end of the slope descent. The Japanese developed a speed of up to 150 km per hour on the descent along the climbing route. He drove almost straight down and, in order to slow down, threw out a special parachute. The situation was super extreme. Either as a result of a mistake, or in an attempt to slow down Miura falls and his uncontrolled fall is like the fall of an inanimate object. The bergschrund is rapidly approaching, a foothill crack that should become his grave. And suddenly a miracle happens, the skier miraculously stops. It gets up on a steep slope a dozen meters from the crack, collects and cordons the parachute. Calmly and confidently bypasses (skis are lost) crack. He is alive, he is collected and calm. Samurai - he is a samurai.

Miura is an atypical Japanese, in a country with a predominantly life-long employment, he has been in constant working dynamics all his life. Dozens of projects passed through it, millions, millions of yen. He rose to receptions with the emperor and experienced periods of stagnation, received orders, presided over various high meetings, led all the country's alpine skiing, taught at the university, while raising children and taking care of parents. In 1981, he organized an ascent to the highest point in Africa, Kilimanjaro, which he climbed with his father (then Keizo was 77 years old) and his 11-year-old son Goto. In 1983, Winson descends from the highest point of Antarctica. In 1985, after skiing from Elbrus, Miura completed the skiing program from the seven highest peaks of the continents. It seemed that the limit of feats for one person had been exhausted. But Yuichiro returned.

He came once again to show his strength, to show how long a person must maintain physical shape, to show how wonderful it is when representatives of different generations understand each other and do the same thing together. In 2000, Miura, together with a group of students, climbed one of the five-thousanders in Nepal. And he decided that his climbing career could well be continued. The next year he successfully climbed the Mera peak (6476m). And in 2002, a 69-year-old Japanese man ascends Cho Oyu and becomes the oldest climber of eight-thousanders. And here is a new attempt, a new challenge. We see Yuichiro on the slopes of Everest. He is still serious and collected. Looks 20 years younger than her age. And it seems that nothing can stop him on the way to his goal.

Here are some typical excerpts from Rick Ridgway and Dick Bass's The Seven Peaks. Miura joined the Mount Vinson expedition in 1983. Antarctica is a very special continent. There are no boundaries on it, and all management essentially belongs to scientists. There were no athletes and even just tourists there until the 80s, and no one was officially going to admit them there. The cost of the program was also an important deterrent. Therefore, even such disruptive people as Wells and Bass (millionaires, initiators of the program) took almost two years to organize an expedition to the highest point of Antarctica. It turned out, among other things, that there are only two planes in the world that can fly to the required point, land and climb on an untreated ice heel. And that only 2 pilots in the world are capable of undertaking such a flight. And that a number of other points must coincide, and still the success of the expedition is not guaranteed. The budget of the expedition was under a million dollars, which was hard to shell out even for Bass and Wells. It is good that they were joined by the famous skier and mountaineer Yukio Miura, who managed to raise several hundred thousand dollars in Japan, which was then prosperous. In addition to them, the famous English climber Chris Bonington played a significant role in the expedition.

The flight to the Vinson area was in itself a match for the risky climb. Private jet DC-3, built in 1944, was chartered. The flight passed first from Canada through California to the south of Chile, then to the Antarctic base and to the summit area. During the landing of the ice flight ace, Giles Kershaw only skied across the glacier and ascended into the sky again. It was intelligence. From the second approach, he successfully landed, fairly galloping over the sastrugs. The team proceeded with enthusiasm to the ascent. It seemed that there were no significant obstacles. However, the first attempt was thwarted by strong winds. Only Bonington reached the top. On the second attempt, on November 30, 1983, Bass managed to climb in conjunction with Rick Ridgway, followed by the rest, including Wells. At the same time, Miura successfully made a ski descent almost from the very top to the base camp.

“In the hangar, I met Yuichiro Miura and his cameraman Tae Maeda. Miura was dismantling the equipment that took up the entire hangar. He had extremely muscular legs and a pretty, tanned and weathered face. He looked in his early thirties, maybe forty (I was amazed to learn that he was 51). The temperature was typical for summer Australia, somewhere around + 30, Miura was with a naked torso, in sports shorts and large leather boots. "New shoes," he said with a smile, "better to distribute them in advance."

The operator was filming while he was dismantling the equipment, checking the ski bindings, packing the backpack. Miura was still planning to descend Vinson Summit and prepare an hour and a half broadcast for Japanese television. Miura was a modern samurai who faced danger in the face of skiing; the folk hero is so well known in Japan that one day he was besieged in a Tokyo restaurant by a crowd of exalted girls who tore his shirt and wrote their names on it with a marker. ”….

“Our two Japanese comrades Yuichiro Miura and his cameraman Tae Maeda also went up with us. Miura had perhaps the heaviest load of them all, carrying all the ski equipment for the descent from the summit. In this tense moment, we realized how great it was that Miura and Maeda were with us on this trip, both self-controlled, hardworking and sociable. Luckily, they both spoke good English, although Dick (Bass) tried to practice Japanese all the time, like a tourist phrasebook. "

“Frank succeeded, no doubt only thanks to the fact that Miura, despite his own large backpack, insisted on taking some of his cargo. If we called Bass a dynamo for the energy, then the self-confident, handsome Japanese ski hero, at the age of 50, was a “superman”. Frank said he would never forget his generosity. In fact, over the course of many months, Frank constantly talked about Miura as one of the greatest people he had ever met. "

“Frank, a professional in the movie business (he left the position of the head of Warner Bros. for the seven summits project), believed that Miura would ski only part of the way to Camp 1. After all, on the way there was a real icefall with cracks and serac towers. Frank believed that Miura would find a couple of spectacular plans, make a couple of takes from different angles. But it won't go straight down. He was wrong. “Miura rode from the tents of Camp 2 to Camp 1 without stopping,” Frank said later, “he flew over cracks, circled seracs at full speed, jumped over blocks. It was the most incredible descent I have ever seen. "

"Roof of the Earth", she is Jamalungma, she is Everest - all these are the names of the highest mountain in the world. She always evoked a lot of emotions among climbers and became the goal of their life.

Among her conquerors there are both women and men. Their age is different: there are, in particular, quite young people for whom Everest became the first peak. We bring to your attention the top 10 youngest of them.

Jordan Romero

An American boy who, at the age of 13 years and 10 months, conquered Everest with his father, for which the latter was repeatedly condemned by society. Until now, he is officially the youngest climber to conquer this mountain. This is largely due to the fact that the authorities of a number of countries have restricted the ascent of children to Everest. So, in China, the minimum age for climbing Mount Everest is 18, and in Nepal - 16. It should be noted that there are no restrictions on the maximum age.

Malawath Purna

On May 25, 2014, she set foot on the summit of Everest, becoming the youngest girl from India to conquer this mountain. She was 13 years and 11 months old that day. The young athlete was selected from 108 boarding students and lived up to the hopes of the coaches, having managed to climb Everest.

Ming Kipa

Ming Kipa is a fifteen year old girl from Nepal. She became the youngest girl who visited the top of a mountain of such size. (pictured on the right) She made her climb in 2003, becoming the absolute record holder among the young climbers who conquered Everest.

Bear Grills

British traveler, TV host of the TV program "Survive at Any Cost". On May 26, 1998, Grills conquered Everest, at that time he was 23 years old. Bear entered the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest.

Pemba Dorje

May 23, 2004 climbed to the top of Mount Everest. He was then 25 years old. It was during this ascent that he set the world record for the speed of climbing a mountain. Its time was 12 hours 45 minutes. Today his record has already been broken, but at that time he was the first who could climb Jamalungma so quickly.

Urobko Denis

A climber from Kazakhstan conquered Everest at the age of 26. He has the unofficial status of "Snow Leopard" and is a multiple champion of the CIS, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the high-altitude, technical winter class. As a master of sports of international class, Denis has won the "Golden Ice Ax of Asia" prize four times.

Mezova Karina

A climber from Nalchik who made her dream of climbing Mount Everest at the age of 28: she reported this by phone while standing on the mountain. The girl placed the flag of Adygea on the top - in memory of the victims of the Caucasian War.

Omar Samra

He also ascended Jamalungma in 2007 - he was then 29 years old. Thus, he became the youngest Arab and the first Egyptian to ascend to this height.

Zhumaev Maksut

Honored Master of Sports in Mountaineering from Kazakhstan. The conqueror of all eight-thousandth heights of the world except for Karakorum, which became a "stumbling block" for him and his partners. Maksut conquered Everest in 2007, at the age of 30. He is known for the fact that he climbed Mount Everest without additional oxygen.

Korobeshko Lyudmila

A climber from Russia who first climbed Mount Everest at the age of 32. This was not her first ascent. She is a translator by profession, but her hobby for rock climbing led to her acquaintance with her husband and the transition of a hobby to the profession. By the way, Lyudmila is the first woman from Russia to visit Everest twice.

Mountaineering is a way of life, not a profession. This is the opinion of everyone who at least once visited the height and saw the world from a bird's eye view, having passed a difficult path over rocks or snowdrifts before. Climbing Mount Everest does not lose its popularity, despite its danger and complexity.

The Republic of Nepal, known as the highest mountainous country in the world. On the north side, it is bordered by the Great Himalayan Range, famous for several peaks exceeding 8000 meters, including Everest - the most on the planet (8848 meters).

Everest: who conquered the place of the gods

According to popular belief, this place was considered the abode of the gods, so no one thought to climb there.

The top of the world even had special names: Chomolungma ("Mother - the goddess of the world") - among the Tibetans and Sagarmatha ("Forehead of heaven") - among the Nepalese. They began to call it Everest only since 1856, with which China, India did not agree, as well as the direct culprit of the renaming - the British aristocrat, surveyor, military man in one person - George Everest, who was the first to determine the exact location of the Himalayan summit and its height. From time to time there are disputes in the press that a mountain located in Asia should not have a European name. Who was the first to conquer Everest - the peak that almost every climber dreams of?

The graceful beauty of the top of the world

The nature of Everest, with rocks, snow and eternal ice, is menacingly harsh and silently beautiful. It is almost always dominated by severe frosts (down to -60 ° C), frequent occurrences - avalanches and snow falls, and the tops of the mountains are blown by the worst winds from all sides, the speed of gusts of which reaches 200 km / h. At an altitude of about 8 thousand meters, the "death zone" begins, called such for the lack of oxygen (30% of the amount present at sea level).

Risk for what?

Nevertheless, despite such harsh natural conditions, the conquest of Everest was and is the cherished dream of many climbers of the world. To stand at the top for a few minutes to go down in history, to look at the world from a heavenly height - isn't that happiness? For such an unforgettable moment, climbers are ready to risk their own lives. And they risk it, knowing that they can stay in the untouched land for eternal centuries. The factors of the possible death of a person who got there is a lack of oxygen, frostbite, trauma, heart failure, fatal accidents and even the indifference of partners.

So, in 1996, a group of rock climbers from Japan met three Indians - climbers who were in a semi-faint state. They died because the Japanese did not help their "competitors", indifferently passing by. In 2006, 42 climbers, along with the television crew of the Discovery channel, indifferently walked past an Englishman who was slowly dying from hypothermia, and also tried to interview him and take photographs. As a result, the daredevil, who dared to conquer Everest alone, died from frostbite and oxygen starvation. One of the Russian climbers, Alexander Abramov, explains such actions of his colleagues as follows: "At an altitude of more than 8000 meters, a person striving to conquer the summit is completely occupied with himself and does not have the extra strength to provide assistance in such outrageous conditions."

George Mallory's Attempt: Successful or Not?

So who was the first to conquer Everest? The discovery of George Everest, who had never conquered this mountain, served as an impetus for the unbridled desire of many climbers to reach the top of the world, which was the first (in 1921) to decide George Mallory, a compatriot of Everest.

Unfortunately, his attempt was unsuccessful: heavy snowfalls, strong winds and lack of experience in climbing to such a height stopped the British climber. However, the unattainable summit beckoned to Mallory, and he made two more unsuccessful ascents (in 1922 and 1924). During the last expedition, his teammate Andrew Irwin disappeared without a trace. The last one of the expedition members, Noel Odell, saw them through the gap in the clouds rising to the top. Only after 75 years, an American search expedition at an altitude of 8155 meters discovered the remains of Mallory. Judging by their location, the climbers fell into the abyss. Also in scientific circles, when examining all the same remains and their location, the assumption arose that George Mallory was the first person to conquer Everest. Andrew Irwin's body was never found.

The years 1924-1938 were marked by the organization of a number of expeditions, albeit unsuccessful. After them, Everest was forgotten for a while, because the Second World War began.

Pioneers

Who conquered Everest first? The Swiss decided to storm the unconquerable summit in 1952, however, the maximum altitude they climbed stopped at 8500 meters, 348 meters did not yield to climbers due to bad weather conditions.

If we assume that Mallory could not reach the top of the world's highest mountain, then the question of who first conquered Everest can be safely answered - New Zealander Edmund Hillary in 1953, and then not himself, but with an assistant - Sherpa Norge Tenzing ...

By the way, Sherpas (from Tibetan, “sher” - east, “pa” - people) are the very people, without whom, perhaps, hardly anyone would have been able to reach such a desired summit. They are a mountain people who settled in Nepal more than 500 years ago. It was the Sherpas who most easily managed to climb Everest, since this mountain is their homeland, where every path is familiar from childhood.

Sherpas are reliable helpers on the way to the top

Sherpas are a very good-natured people, unable to hurt anyone. For them, killing an ordinary mosquito or a field mouse is considered a terrible sin, which requires very much praying. The Sherpas have their own language, but nowadays they almost all speak English. This is the great merit of Edmund Hillary - the first conqueror of Everest. As a token of gratitude for the invaluable help, he built a school in one of the main villages at his own expense.

Although with all the penetration into the life of civilization Sherpas, their way of life remains largely patriarchal. Traditional settlements are stone two-story houses, on the first floor of which livestock are usually kept: yaks, sheep, goats, and the family itself, as a rule, is located on the second floor; there is also a kitchen, bedrooms, a common room. Minimum furniture. Thanks to pioneering climbers, electricity has recently appeared; they still don't have gas or some kind of central heating. They use yak droppings as fuel for cooking, which are pre-collected and dried on stones.

Inaccessible Mount Everest ... Who was the first to conquer this distant peak: or George Mallory? Scientists are still looking for the answer to this day, as well as the answer to the question of what year they conquered Everest: in 1924 or in 1953.

Everest conquest records

Everest succumbed to more than one person, even records were set for a temporary ascent to the top. For example, in 2004 the Sherpa Pemba Dorzh reached it from the base camp in 10 hours and 46 minutes, while most climbers take up to several days for the same operation. The fastest descended from the mountain in 1988, the Frenchman Jean-Marc Boivin, however, he made the jump on a paraglider.

Women who conquered Everest are in no way inferior to men, also stubbornly and persistently overcoming every meter of ascent upward. The first representative of the weak half of humanity in 1975 was the Japanese woman Yunko Tabei, 10 days later - Pantog, a Tibetan mountaineer.

Who was the first to conquer Everest among the elderly? The oldest conqueror of the summit is 76-year-old Nepalese resident Min Bahadur Sherkhan, and the youngest is 13-year-old American Jordan Romero. Of interest is the persistence of another young conqueror of the "top of the world" - 15-year-old Sherpa Temba Tseri, whose first attempt was unsuccessful due to lack of strength and frostbite of both hands. On his return, Tembe had 5 fingers amputated, which did not stop him, he conquered Everest on his second ascent.

Among the disabled is also the first person to climb Mount Everest. This is Mark Inglis, who rose to the top of the world in 2006 with the help of prostheses.

The hero even joked that, unlike other climbers, he would not freeze his toes. Moreover, he froze his legs earlier, while trying to climb the highest peak in New Zealand - Cook Peak, after which they were amputated to him.

Apparently, Everest has some magical power if hundreds of climbers rush to it. The one who conquered him once again returned more than once, trying to do it again.

Alluring peak - Everest

Who was the first to conquer Everest? Why are people so attracted to this place? There are many reasons explaining this. Tickling nerves, lack of thrills, desire to test oneself, boring everyday life….

Texas millionaire Dick Bass is the man who climbed Mount Everest. He, not being a professional climber, was not going to spend years carefully preparing for a dangerous ascent and decided to conquer the peak of the world right away, as they say: here and now. Bass was willing to pay any money to anyone who would help make his seemingly unrealistic dream come true.

Dick Bass was still able to conquer the summit of Everest, and the assembled team turned out to be assistants in the expedition, which provided the millionaire with comfort when climbing up; people carried all the cargo, tents, water, food. So to speak, the ascent was all-inclusive, and this was the beginning of commercial travel to the summit.

Since then, since 1985, everyone who has enough money for this can conquer the top. Today, the cost of one such ascent varies from 40 to 85 thousand dollars, depending on the side of the ascent to the mountain. If the trip takes place from the side of Nepal, then it is more expensive, because a special permission from the king is required, which costs 10 thousand dollars. The rest of the amount is paid for organizing the expedition.

And there was even a wedding ...

In 2005, Mona Mule and Pem Georgie had a wedding at the top of the world. Climbing upstairs, the newlyweds took off the traditional colored garlands around their necks for a few minutes. Pem then anointed his bride's forehead with scarlet powder to symbolize marriage. The newlyweds kept their act a secret from everyone: parents, acquaintances, expedition partners, since they were not sure of the successful outcome of the planned event.

So how many people have conquered Everest? Surprisingly, today there are more than 4,000 people. And the most optimal period for climbing in mild weather conditions is considered to be spring and autumn. True, such an idyll lasts a short time - only a few weeks, which climbers try to use as fruitfully as possible.

According to statistics, of those who storm Everest, every tenth person dies, and most of the accidents occur during the descent, when there is practically no strength left. Theoretically, Everest can be conquered in a few days. In practice, however, gradualness and an optimal combination of ascents and halts are required.

In the middle of the last century, the mission "Climbing Everest" seemed impossible - before Edmund Hillary and Norgay Tenzing conquered its summit in 1953, at least 50 unsuccessful attempts were made by other daredevils. Thanks to modern equipment, nowadays almost anyone can climb Everest, but even today, when conquering the greatest mountain, desperate things are encountered.

1. Younger than ever

The youngest conqueror of Everest back in 2010 was Jordan Romero - at the time of conquering the summit, the boy was only 13 years old. The young daredevil made the ascent with his parents, and they did not go from Nepal, as the main part of the groups, but from Tibet. At the moment, no one has broken his record, and this is unlikely to happen in the near future, since in Nepal it has recently been allowed to climb Everest only after the onset of 16 years, and in China - after 18. But even if by some miracle still a younger talent will climb Everest, despite the prohibitions, hardly anyone will be able to reach the level of Jordan Romero, because in December 2011 this boy set another record - he became the youngest conqueror of the 7 highest peaks of 7 continents.

Overcoming myself

Mark Inglis from New Zealand became the first person to climb Everest as a disabled person. 20 years ago, a man was amputated both legs - he froze them during an expedition to Mount Cook, but even this fact did not affect the man's confidence that he could conquer the highest mountain in the world. Eventually, in 2006, the climber embarked on a dream journey as part of a commercial team accompanied by a Discovery Channel film crew. It seemed that fate itself was against this ascent - at an altitude of 6.5 thousand meters, a New Zealand climber broke a prosthesis, which was incredibly difficult to repair. Nevertheless, Mark managed not only to fix the breakdown, but also to set foot on the top of the mountain, which he had dreamed of for so long. The climb took Inglis as much as 40 days, but the climber himself claims that he would be ready to go as much more, if only to achieve the cherished goal.

Climbing in the dark

Imagine wandering off-road and cold in complete darkness, when dangers lie in wait at every step, and you do not even understand where you are going. Have you presented? This is how the American Eric Weichenmeier felt, who in 2001 conquered the summit of Mount Everest, being blind. The climber lost his sight at the age of 13, but this, on the contrary, pushed him to conquer new peaks, both in the literal and figurative sense of the word. Eric became involved in freestyle wrestling, rock climbing and several sports, and also climbed the 7 highest mountains in 7 parts of the world.

Great-grandchildren will wait

Japanese grandfather Yuichiro Miura is the clearest example of the fact that after 80 life is just beginning. At this age, he managed to set a world record, becoming the oldest climber to reach the summit of Everest. It is worth noting that Miura had already climbed the mountain earlier, and once went down the slope (and this, for a minute, 8 thousand meters) on skis, which already aroused increased interest. Now another grandpa is climbing Everest - the Nepalese Min Bahadur Sherkhan, who plans to climb the mountain in his 84 years. Let's wish them both good luck and, most importantly, even longer life!

Mount Everest: "For 15 years I have lost 15 tons!"

Another Japanese man, Ken Noguchi, who is sometimes called Everest's orderly, has taken five expeditions to this greatest mountain over the past 15 years, but not at all in order to become famous for the number of ascents or to stand at the top, feeling like the king of the world. The fact is that every time he takes an incredible amount of garbage from the mountain - parts of equipment, used oxygen tanks and other trash that climbers leave. During this time, Ken managed to take out about 9 tons of garbage from the slopes - by the way, the Japanese took a small part of it for himself in order to later arrange an exhibition and show how the great mountain suffers from the presence of people. It is worth noting that recently other climbers have also undertaken ecological expeditions - for example, Eco Everest participants removed 6 tons of garbage from the mountain.