In the middle of the last century, the mission "To climb Everest" seemed impossible - before Edmund Hillary and Norgay Tenzing conquered its summit in 1953, other daredevils made at least 50 unsuccessful attempts to climb, Day. Az reports with reference to Dnpmag.ru … Thanks to modern equipment, nowadays almost anyone can climb Everest, but among the everyday conquests of the greatest mountain, there are also very unusual cases.
Nowhere younger
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 brave man 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 is recently 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 can 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 while disabled. 20 years ago, a man had both legs amputated - 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 crew, 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 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,just to achieve the cherished goal.
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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 he 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.