Apa Sherpa

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Apa Sherpa in the Khumbu Icefall of Mount Everest

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Also Known As	Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa • Appa Sherpa
Born	c.1960 • Nepal

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Reinhold Messner

Italian explorer

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

Austrian mountain climber

Rob Hall

New Zealand mountain climber

Oh Eun-Sun

South Korean mountain climber

George Mallory

British explorer and mountaineer

Edmund Hillary

New Zealand explorer

Tenzing Norgay

Nepali-Indian mountaineer

Heinrich Harrer

explorer and writer

Annie Smith Peck

American mountain climber

Edward Whymper

British mountaineer and artist

Vegard Ulvang

Norwegian athlete

Bachendri Pal

Indian mountaineer

William Martin Conway, Baron Conway

British explorer and art historian

John Hunt, Baron Hunt

British army officer

Albert Frederick Mummery

British mountaineer

Abruzzi, Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco, duke d'

Luigi Amedeo Giuseppe Maria Ferdinando Francesco, duke d’Abruzzi

Spanish mountaineer

Douglas Freshfield

British explorer

William Augustus Brevoort Coolidge

British historian and mountaineer

Prachanda

prime minister of Nepal

Baburam Bhattarai

prime minister of Nepal

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