"The Roof of the Earth", she is Jamalungma, she is Everest - all these are the names of the highest mountain in the world. It has always evoked a lot of emotions among climbers and has become the goal of their lives.
Among its conquerors there are both women and men. Their age is different: there are, in particular, quite young people for whom Everest became the first peak. We bring to your attention the top 10 youngest of them.
Jordan Romero
An American boy who, at the age of 13 years and 10 months, conquered Everest with his father, for which the latter was repeatedly condemned by society. Until now, he is officially the youngest climber to conquer this mountain. This is largely due to the fact that the authorities of a number of countries have limited the ascent of children to Everest. So, in China, the minimum age for climbing Everest is 18, and in Nepal - 16. It should be noted that there are no restrictions on the maximum age.
Malawath Purna
On May 25, 2014, she stepped onto the summit of Everest, becoming the youngest girl from India to conquer this mountain. She was 13 years and 11 months old that day. The young athlete was chosen from 108 boarding school students and lived up to the hopes of the coaches, having managed to climb Everest.
Ming Kipa
Ming Kipa is a fifteen-year-old girl from Nepal. She became the youngest girl to visit the top of a mountain of this magnitude. (pictured right) She made her ascent in 2003, becoming the absolute record holder among young climbers who conquered Everest.
Bear Grills
British traveler, television presenter of the television program "Survive at all costs". May 26, 1998 Grylls conquered Everest, at that time he was 23 years old. Bear entered the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest Briton to climb Mount Everest.
Pemba Dorje
May 23, 2004 climbed to the top of Mount Everest. He was then 25 years old. It was during this ascent that he set the world record for the speed of climbing the mountain. His time was 12 hours 45 minutes. Today, his record has already been broken, but at that time he was the first who was able to climb Jamalungma so quickly.
Urobko Denis
A climber from Kazakhstan conquered Everest at the age of 26. It has an unofficial status Snow Leopard”and is a repeated champion of the CIS, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in the high-altitude, technical winter class. Being a master of sports of international class, Denis won the prize "Golden Ice Ax of Asia" four times.
Mezova Karina
A climber from Nalchik, who fulfilled her dream of climbing Everest at the age of 28: she announced this by phone, standing on the mountain. At the top, the girl placed the flag of Adygea - in memory of the victims of the Caucasian war.
Omar Samra
He also ascended Jamalungma in 2007 - he was then 29 years old. Thus he became the youngest Arab and the first Egyptian to reach this height.
Zhumaev Maksut
Honored Master of Sports in mountaineering from Kazakhstan. Conqueror of all eight-thousandth heights of the world except Karakorum, which has become a "stumbling block" for him and his partners. Everest Maksut conquered in 2007, at the age of 30. He is known for climbing Everest without supplemental oxygen.
Korobeshko Ludmila
A Russian mountaineer who first climbed Mount Everest at the age of 32. This was not her first ascent. She is a translator by profession, but her passion for rock climbing led to her meeting her husband and turning her hobby into a profession. By the way, Lyudmila is the first woman from Russia to visit Everest twice.
Climbing is a way of life, not a profession. This is the opinion of everyone who has ever been at a height and saw the world from a bird's eye view, having gone through a difficult path through rocks or snowdrifts before that. Climbing Everest does not lose its popularity, despite its danger and difficulty.
Incredible Facts
As you know, society extols youth, when our beauty and strength flourish.
However, many achievements require wisdom, long preparation and experience.
Here are a few people who have reached a certain level, and in some cases become infamous, much earlier than the rest.
10 Youngest Serial Killer
Many children are violent, and antisocial tendencies in childhood can develop into serious crimes.
However, to meet a serial killer who has not yet reached adolescence- this is something out of the ordinary. The youngest serial killer recorded in the protocol is 8 year old Armadip Sada (Armadeep Sada) from India.
The boy is the culprit 3 kills, including his cousin and sister, who was less than a year, and the child of the neighbors, after which he was caught. All three children were stoned to death.
What exactly made the boy commit these murders is unknown. When the press asked about Sade's psychiatric condition, they replied that the boy "smiled a lot and asked for cookies."
9. The youngest marathon runner
Another representative from India, boy Budhia Singh(Budhia Singh) at the age of 3 became the youngest marathon runner in the world.
The boy's mother, due to poverty, was forced to sell him, and the boy was placed in the care of the owner of the shelter and a judo coach. Biranchi Das(Biranchi Das).
One day the coach as a punishment for bad behavior made the boy run and Das ran for many hours. By the age of 4, he had already run 48 marathons. Despite his abilities, there were suspicions that the coach was exploiting Budhia and he was taken out of custody in 2007. Now the boy is in the state academy, and his coach was killed in 2008.
8. The youngest university graduate
Michael Kearney(Michael Kearney) entered the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest graduate of the university, having received a bachelor's degree in University of South Alabama, USA at the age of 10.
See also: 10 modern geeksAt the age of 4, he passed the Johns Hopkins diagnostic test in mathematics without even studying, and easily graduated from school at the age of 6.
At 16, he began teaching at Vanderbilt University, earning a master's degree at 17. By the age of 21, he already had 4 degrees in anthropology, computing, geology, and chemistry.
7. The youngest conqueror of Everest
Since Edmund Hilary and Tenzing Norgay made the first ascent of Everest in 1953, thousands of people tried to repeat this difficult task. Conquering the highest peak in the world is a dangerous business, and about 10 percent of people die on the way to their goal.
Jordan Romero(Jordan Romero) from California, USA became the youngest conqueror of Everest at the age of only 13. This happened in May 2010.
But he did not stop at this achievement, and by the age of 15, in addition to Everest, he had conquered the peaks of Kilimanjaro, Elbrus, Aconcagua, McKinley, Punchak Jaya and the Vinson Massif in Antarctica.
6. The youngest singer to appear on the Billboard charts
There is no shortage of young talent these days, but most musicians don't hit the charts until they can tie at least a couple of sentences together.
But everything changed in early 2012 when daughter of famous rapper Jay-Z and Beyoncé, called Blue Ivy Carter(Blue Ivy Carter), made a cameo appearance with the single "Glory" just a a few days after birth.
The song was a kind of expression of a father's love for his daughter, which said that "my greatest creation is you." As you might guess, the baby's contribution to the track was minimal, since only a fragment of his daughter's cry after birth was recorded.
But it was enough to become the youngest person to appear on the Billboard chart. Her spot on the chart was number 74 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hong chart.
5. The youngest officer in combat training
Since childhood Donnie Dunagan(Donnie Dunagan) was an actor, starring in films such as "Son of Frankenstein" and voicing the cartoon "Bambi". However, this was his last role as his parents separated and he was forced to work and seek refuge in a boarding house. AT 18 years he entered United States Marine Corps, becoming the youngest combat training instructor.
He fought in Vietnam, was wounded and reached the rank of major before retiring in 1977.
4. The youngest child suicidal
The tragic record young man who deliberately committed suicide belongs to 6 year old Samantha Kuberski (Samantha Kuberski) from Oregon, who hanged herself on December 2, 2009.
The girl was sent to the room after a quarrel with her mother, and she wrapped a belt around her neck, tying it to the crib. After her lifeless body was discovered, Samantha was taken to the hospital, where she died.
Although the police thought it was an accidental suicide, medical experts determined that it was a deliberate suicide, leading to much debate about whether a child at that age could even appreciate the gravity of such a decision.
3. The youngest billionaire
Many people dream of wealth and, at best, achieve it after years of hard work or luck. However, the emergence of the Internet led to the birth of a whole generation of young and very rich people.
Today, May 23, 2013, at 9:05 am (local time), the legendary Japanese climber, 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura climbed to the top of Everest!
With this ascent, Yuichiro Miura rewrote the age record of the conquerors of Everest, becoming the oldest climber to reach its summit!
Yuichiro Miura climbed Everest with the support of his team, which also included his son, 49-year-old Gota Miura.
In general, the ascent from the Base Camp took 8 days. The climbers made the last spurt to the summit from Camp 5 at an altitude of 8.5 thousand meters in seven hours. The final meters of the distance were complicated by constant strong winds. The ascent was made using oxygen cylinders.
Start climbing Yuichiro Miura on Everest, May 2013:
"I did it!" Yuichiro said from the top of Everest on the phone. "I never thought it was possible to conquer the summit of Everest at the age of 80. It is the most wonderful feeling in the world, although completely exhausted. Even at the advanced age of 80 years, I can still do something outstanding"
Yuichiro and his team stayed at the top of Everest for about 30 minutes, taking commemorative photos, and then began to descend.
But, this record by Yuichiro Miura can only last a few days, because after him, next week, he will conquer the summit of Everest, even though he suffered an upset just a few days ago digestive system.
In addition, the team of Min Bahadur Sherkhan faced financial difficulties when they did not receive the financial assistance promised by the Nepalese government (later Purna Chandra Bhattarai, the head of the Nepal mountaineering department, stated that this financial help still under consideration by the government).
Yuichiro became a famous conqueror of Everest, primarily for his first descent from the summit on mountain skis in May 1970.
Yuichiro Miura is sometimes called "the man who skied down Everest for the first time", but more often he is given more ridiculous titles, such as "the man who first skied (almost head over heels) down Everest".
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It is worth noting that this film won the "Oscar" in 1975 in the category "Best Documentary".
Note that already in the 2000s, a rivalry developed between Yuichiro and Min Bahadur in setting the age record for climbing Everest:
The first to enter the Guinness Book of Records was Yuichiro, who in 2003, at the age of 70, became the oldest person to climb Mount Everest.
In 2008, Yuichiro, at the age of 75, once again climbed Mount Everest with the goal of breaking his own age record; however, just a day before Yuichiro's ascent, on May 25, 2008, Nepalese climber Min Bahadur Sherchan summited Everest at the age of 76 years and 340 days, breaking all Everest climbing age records.
However, in 2008, Yuichiro was awarded for his conquest of Everest an entry in the Guinness Book of Records, as the only person in the world to have climbed Everest twice at the age of over 70 years.
After his second summit of Everest, Yuichiro planned his "anniversary" ascent at the age of 80; however, in 2009, he was badly injured in a skiing fall: breaking his pelvic bones and left femur. Then, the doctors unequivocally said that they would have to break with mountain climbing. However, his firm determination and desire to climb Everest disproved the arguments of doctors and skeptics. Just 6 months after the accident, Yuichiro started training again
By the way, in the Miura family, Yuichiro is not the only record holder, his father, Keizo Miura, is also a very athletic and courageous person.
In 1981, Yuichiro organizes an ascent to the highest point in Africa - Mount Kilimanjaro (5895 m). Naturally, to ski down from there. This time, Yuichiro was not alone, his father Keizo and son Goto participated in this expedition with him.
In 1981, Keizo was 77 years old, and 22 years later, in 2003, Keizo Miura committed an act that honored him with a mention in the Guinness Book of Records - he skied down the White Valley in Chamonix (France) (there are ski slopes of the highest category of complexity ). It is not surprising that his grandson Goto practiced mogul (downhill skiing on a special uneven track) for many years and was the leader of the Japanese team in this sport.
Yuichiro Miura's further achievements were just as "modest". In 1983, he participated in the "Seven Summits" program (ascents to the highest points of all continents) by Rick Ridgway and Dick Bass and on November 30 he skied down Mount Vinson (5140 m) in Antarctica. And in 1985, Elbrus (5642 m) and Aconcagua (6960 m) lay under his skis.
Yuichiro Miura was born in October 1932 in Aomori Prefecture (north of Honshu). His father raised him in an atmosphere of strictness and respect for physical culture. A versatile athlete and diligent student, Yuichiro entered the University of Hokkaido in Sapporo. He studied to be a veterinarian. However, at this time in the northern Japanese island a real ski boom began. Physically strong and agile, Yuichiro turned out to be the strongest skier of the university, the city and then the country. Participation in international competitions did not bring much fame, reaching the level of the strongest athletes from the Alpine countries, however, he met other-minded people who opened other horizons for him.
Miura decided on the most important step - he became a professional. He started at commercial events in the USA, where he impressed everyone with his composure and absolute fearlessness. Competitions did not bring satisfaction, neither material nor moral. Yuichiro decided to seek his fortune in the emerging world of extreme skiing. The samurai achieved absolute perfection in mastering himself and his weapons. Miura's weapons were skis. He trained selflessly, took risks and won. Soon began a series of exploits that made him national hero. World speed record on the glacier in Cervinia (172 km / h), the first descent on skis from Fujiyama (1966), the first descent from McKinley (1967).
And finally, in 1970, the turn of Everest came. Let's say right away that Miura did not descend from the summit of Everest (this was done much later by Kammerlander and Karnichar). The highest point was the South Col (about 8000 meters). However, what he did is unlikely to be repeated. Miura didn't slide down the slope or traverse the slope in preparation for the jump turn at the end of the downhill slope. The Japanese developed a speed of up to 150 km per hour on the descent along the climbing route. He drove almost straight down and, to slow down, threw out a special parachute. The situation was super extreme. Whether as a result of a mistake, or in an attempt to slow down, Miura falls and his uncontrolled fall is like a fall inanimate object. The bergschrund, the foothill fissure that should become his grave, is rapidly approaching. And suddenly a miracle happens, the skier miraculously stops. He gets up on a steep slope ten meters from the crack, collects and cordons off the parachute. Calmly and confidently bypasses (skis are lost) a crack. He is alive, he is collected and calm. Samurai - he is a samurai.
Miura is not a typical Japanese, in a country with predominantly lifetime employment, he has been in constant work dynamics all his life. Dozens of projects passed through it, millions and millions of yen. He rose to receptions with the emperor and experienced periods of stagnation, received orders, presided over various high meetings, led all the country's skiing, taught at the university, while raising children and taking care of parents. In 1981, he organized the ascent to the highest point in Africa, Kilimanjaro, which he climbed with his father (then Keizo was 77 years old) and 11-year-old son Goto. In 1983, Mount Vinson descends from the highest point of Antarctica. In 1985, after skiing down Elbrus, Miura completed the program of skiing down the seven highest peaks of the continents. It seemed that the limit of exploits for one person had been exhausted. But Yuichiro returned.
He came once again to show his strength, to show how long a person must maintain physical shape, to show how wonderful it is when representatives of different generations understand each other and do one thing together. In 2000, Miura, together with a group of students, climbed one of the five-thousanders in Nepal. And he decided that his climbing career could well be continued. AT next year he successfully climbs Mera peak (6476m). And in 2002, a 69-year-old Japanese ascends Cho Oyu and becomes the oldest climber of eight-thousanders. And here is a new attempt, a new challenge. We see Yuichiro on the slopes of Everest. He is still serious and collected. He looks 20 years younger than his age. And it seems that nothing can stop him on the way to his goal.
Here are a few characteristic excerpts from Rick Ridgway and Dick Bass' book Seven Peaks. Miura joined the Mount Vinson expedition in 1983. Antarctica is a very special continent. There are no borders on it, and all management essentially belongs to scientists. There were no athletes and even just tourists there until the 80s, and no one was officially going to let them go there. The cost of the program was also an important deterrent. Therefore, even such punchy people as Wells and Bass (millionaires, initiators of the program) took almost two years to organize an expedition to the highest point of Antarctica. It turned out, among other things, that there are only two aircraft in the world that can fly to the required point, land and climb on an untreated ice heel. And that only 2 pilots in the world are able to take on such a flight. And that a number of other points must coincide, and still the success of the expedition is not guaranteed. The expedition budget was under a million dollars, such an amount was hard to lay out even for Bass and Wells. It's good that they were joined by the famous skier and mountaineer Yukio Miura, who managed to raise several hundred thousand dollars in then prosperous Japan. In addition to them, the famous English climber Chris Bonington played a significant role in the expedition.
The flight to the Vinson area was in itself a risky climb. A private aircraft DC-3, 1944 was chartered. The flight went first from Canada through California to southern Chile, then to the Antarctic base and to the summit area. When landing as an ice flight, Giles Kershaw only skied over the surface of the glacier and again rose into the sky. It was intelligence. From the second approach, he landed successfully, pretty much galloping over the sastrugi. The team set out with enthusiasm for the ascent. It seemed that there were no significant obstacles. However, the first attempt was canceled due to strong wind. Only Bonington reached the summit. On the second attempt, on November 30, 1983, Bass succeeded in climbing in conjunction with Rick Ridgway, followed by the rest, including Wells. At the same time, Miura successfully skied almost from the very top to the base camp.
“In the hangar, I met Yuichiro Miura and his operator, Tae Maeda. Miura was dismantling the equipment that took up the entire hangar. He had extremely muscular legs and a handsome, tanned and weathered face. He looked about thirty years old, maybe forty (I was amazed to learn that he was 51 years old). The temperature was normal for summer in Australia, somewhere around + 30, Miura was bare-chested, in sports shorts and big leather boots. "New boots," he said smiling, "better break them in beforehand."
The operator was filming while he was unpacking equipment, checking ski bindings, packing a backpack. Miura still planned to make the descent from Mount Vinson and prepare an hour and a half broadcast for Japanese television. Miura was a modern-day samurai, adamantly facing danger on skis; the folk hero is so well known in Japan that he was once besieged in a Tokyo restaurant by a crowd of exalted girls who tore his shirt and wrote their names on it with a marker.”….
“Our two Japanese comrades Yuichiro Miura and his cameraman Tae Maeda also climbed with us. Miura had perhaps the heaviest load of all, carrying all the ski equipment for the descent from the summit. In this tense moment, we realized how great it was to have Miura and Maeda with us on this trip, both patient, hardworking and communicative. Fortunately, they both spoke good English, although Dick (Bass) kept trying to practice his Japanese, at the level of a tourist phrase book.
“Frank succeeded, no doubt only because Miura, despite his own large backpack, insisted on taking some of his load. If we called Bass a dynamo for his energy, then the self-confident, handsome Japanese ski hero, at the age of 50, was a “superman”. Frank said he would never forget his generosity. In fact, for months, Frank kept talking about Miura as one of the greatest people he's ever met."
“Frank, a film business professional (he left his job as CEO of Warner Bros. for the sake of the Seven Summits project), believed that Miura would ski only part of the way to Camp 1. After all, there was a real icefall with cracks and serac towers on the way down. Frank figured that Miura would come up with a couple of effective shots, a couple of takes from different angles. But it won't go straight down. He was wrong. “Miura drove from the tents of Camp 2 to Camp 1 non-stop,” Frank later said, “he flew over cracks, went around seracs at full speed, jumped over blocks. It was the most incredible descent I have ever seen.”
Everyone knows that Mount Everest is the highest peak in the world (relative to sea level). And our 18 crazy facts will make you dream of climbing this unique mountain!
According to official data, based on a 1954 measurement, Mount Everest reaches a height of 8,848 meters. Satellite measurements taken in 1999 showed the mountain to be 1.83 meters taller, but this information is disputed.
At the highest point of Everest, a person receives only a third of the amount of oxygen that is normally inhaled. It's not a different composition of the air, but less pressure
Wind speeds on the mountain sometimes exceed 200 miles per hour
Reinhold Messner was the first to climb the mountain alone and without the use of oxygen in 1980
Frenchman Marco Siffredi and Austrian Stefan Gatt went down the mountain on a snowboard in 2001
Japan's 80-year-old Yuichiro Miura is the oldest person to summit Everest.
The youngest person to reach the summit of Everest was 13-year-old Jordan Romero. In May 2010, the young American broke the previous record of 15-year-old Min Kip Sherpa
The tallest man-made structure in the world is the Burj Khalifa in Dubai (829 m). Everest is over 10 times taller than this structure!
The first tweet from the summit of Everest was sent by Kenton Cool in 2011. He wrote: "Climbing Everest number 9. First tweet from the highest point in the world thanks to a weak 3G signal"
Every year the mountain gets 4mm higher due to the upward thrust created by the two opposing tectonic plates.
Now Everest can be seen on Google maps, although it never reached the top. In 2011, the team spent 2 weeks climbing 70 miles to base camp and taking photos along the way.
Australian Tim McCartney-Snape in May 1990 became the first to reach the summit from sea level without supplemental oxygen.
The first phone call was made from the summit of Everest in the summer of 2013. However, Nepalese officials were not too impressed with this, and they considered it illegal.
The record for the longest time spent on the summit of Everest belongs to Babu Chiri Sherpa. In 1999 he stayed here for 21 hours
In 2004, a wedding took place at the top of Everest. Moni Mule Pati and Pem Dorji Sherpa, a couple from Nepal, kept their plans secret from other climbers until they reached the peak.
Everest is known for its traffic jams. Sometimes several hundred climbers can be at the top at the same time.
The mountain was named after George Everest in 1856. He was India's chief surveyor, but he never saw the peak himself.
1974 was the last year in which not a single person summited Everest
