Four climbers went up and down Everest in under a week with the help of xenon gas—a record-breaking ascent that has ignited controversy in the mountaineering world.

This culminated in a 1980 solo ascent of Everest without oxygen tanks, ... Editor’s note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated that Reinhold Messner is Austrian.

Next on Messner and Habeler’s hit list was Everest, which they successfully climbed in 1978 and again, without supplementary oxygen. This proved to the world that such a climb was possible.

Messner and Habeler achieved what certain doctors, specialists, and mountaineers thought impossible. He repeated the feat, without Habeler, from the Tibetan side in 1980, during the monsoon season.

Netflix describes her as “the greatest Everest climber you’ve never heard of”. This is Lhakpa Sherpa, a Nepalese mountain climber who, in 2022, became the first woman to climb Everest 10 ...

Reinhold Messner, one of the first two men to summit Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen, ... The first person to summit Everest solo.

Mountain man: the miraculous life of Reinhold Messner, the world’s most controversial climber. He was the brash, brilliant and ego-fuelled climber who first scaled Everest without oxygen ...

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