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Mount Everest. First Oxygen less Ascent: May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge . Fastest Ascent (north side): Hans Kammerlander (IT) May,24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp
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Mount Everest First Oxygen less Ascent: May 8, 1978- Reinhold Messner, IT, and Peter Habeler, AUT, via the South-East Ridge
Fastest Ascent (north side): Hans Kammerlander (IT) May,24,1996, via the standard North Col Ridge Route, 16 hours 45 minutes from base camp • Youngest person: Temba Tsheri (NP) 15 on May,22,2001 • Oldest Person: Sherman Bull May,25,2001 -64 yrs • First Legally Blind Person: Erik Weihenmeyer May,25,2001
Other Facts • Corpses remaining on Everest: about 120 • Mt. Everest rises a few millimeters each year due to geological forces