Mount Everest has been an ideal place for record setting for adventurers. In a recent news, mountaineering authorities are calling for a ban on nudity on the highest peak. In this context, I want to present some of the records set on the top of the world.
The record setting game started with New Zealander Sir Edmund Hillary and Nepali Sherpa Tensing Norgay on 29 May 1953 when they became the first people to scale the highest peak in the world.
Last year, a Nepali climber claimed the world’s highest display of nudity when he disrobed for several minutes while standing on the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) summit in temperatures about minus 10 degrees Celsius. In a recent news, another record-setting attempt by a Dutch man who attempted to scale the peak wearing only shorts has sparked controversy.
According to the officials, mountaineering authorities are calling for a ban on nudity and attempts to set ‘obscene records’ on the world’s highest peak. The reason they are quoting are based on some religious belief of people worshiping the mountains as gods. But if I were to choose a valid reason I would quote health and safety reason. I believe it is not a healthy thing to to be naked for a couple of days in sub-zero temperature.
The oldest climber, Katsusuke Yanagisawa was 71 years, 2 months and 2 days old when he reached the 8,850-meter (29,035-foot) peak on May 22, 2007.
Photo of the 71-year-old Japanese mountain climber, Katsusuke Yanagisawa, after returning from climbing the summit of Mount Everest to become the oldest person to scale it. Credit: AP Photo/Binod Joshi
On May 16, 2007, Apa Sherpa climbed Everest for the 17th timeâ€â€breaking his own record for the highest number of successful Everest summits. Apa started climbing Everest since 1989.
Reinhold Messner, from Italy, and Peter Habeler, from Austria, became the first men to climb to the summit without oxygen in 1978. Three years later Messner became the first man to achieve the feat alone.
Eric Weihenmayer became the first blind climber to scale Mt. Everest in May 25, 2001.
More records dateline can be found in this page. It is a bit outdated as the latest records recorded in the page dates back to 2003. But still it is quite informative. I will update this page when I find some new records on the roof of the world.
vipin has that spirit to breake all da
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it is very difficult but vipin can do it because DAR SE MAT DARO DAR KE AAGE JEET HAI…..
i think that this is stupid for them to take gloves off of the list of things needed because somebody could get hurt without the gloves.
Vipin Borole,
12 June, 2000 news – http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/787752.stm states failed attempt. He was 14 years old at that time.
But again he attempted and succeeded in climbing the peak at age 15. See news of 24 May, 2001 –
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/1349232.stm
In 2000 another Nepali teenager came close to breaking that record but lack of oxygen and eye injury forced Arbin Timilsina, who was 15, to give up climbing 100 metres from the top.
Can Temba Tseri fully climb the Mount Everest in age 15.
ramro chha
good job.