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List of firsts
This is a list of the first man/woman/animal/object etc., to do something or the first occurrence of an event.
Exploration
- First disputed expedition to the (geographic) North Pole: Robert Edwin Peary and his employee Matthew Henson and four Inuit men Ootah, Seegloo, Egingway, and Ooqueah. April 9, 1909
- First people to sight the (geographic) North Pole: Roald Amundsen and his sponsor Lincoln Ellsworth from an aircraft piloted by Umberto Nobile, between May 11 and May 13, 1926
- First people to reach the (geographic) North Pole: Lt. Col. Joseph O. Fletcher and Lt. William P. Benedict landed their plane. May 3, 1952
- First people to reach the South Pole: Roald Amundsen and his party - Olav Bjaaland, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting. December 14, 1911
- First (and only, as of 2005) people to reach the deepest point on earth, the Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench, Pacific Ocean: Jacques Piccard and Lieutenant Don Walsh on the Bathyscaphe Trieste. January 23, 1960
- First people to scale K2, the world's second-highest peak: Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni of the party led by Ardito Desio and Mario Puchoz. July 29, 1954
- First recorded deaths on Everest: 7 Sherpas die in avalanche in 1922
- First successful summit (via the South-East Ridge Route) Tenzing Norgay & Sir Edmund Hillary May 29, 1953
- First successful summit via the North Ridge by a Chinese team on May 25, 1960
- First American to reach summit James Whittaker in 1963
- First The first ascent of the West Ridge on May 22, 1963 Willi Unsoeld and Tom Hornbein . Also the first traverse of the South East Ridge
- First person to summit Everest twice: Nawang Gombu Sherpa May 20, 1965
- First woman to summit is Junko Tabei of Japan on 16 May 1975 via the South-East Ridge
- First woman to summit from the North (Tibettan side is a Tibbettan woman named Phantog.
- First summit from the South West face on September 24, 1975 are Dougal Haston and Doug Scott
- First Ascent without bottled oxygen is by Peter Habeler (Austria) and Reinhold Messner (Italy) on the 8th May 1978
- First European woman and the third woman to summit Everest is Wanda Rutkiewicz
- First woman to die on Everest is Hannelore Schmatz , after becoming the 4th woman to summit Everest
- First Winter ascent is by Krzysztof Wielicki of Poland on the 17th February 1980
- First Indian woman summit was Bachendri Pal on 23 May 1984
- First woman to climb without oxygen was Lydia Bradey of New Zealand on 14th November 1988
- First true ski descent by Davo Karnicar
- First snowboard descent by Marco Siffredi
- First blind person to Summit Everest is Erik Weihenmayer in 2000
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Last updated: 01-04-2007 01:18:57
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