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1. Bradford Washburn (1910)
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Legendary mountaineer who surveyed, measured, and photographed some of the world's highest peaks.
2. Yvon Chouinard (1938)
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Outdoor industry entrepreneur and rock climber known for founding the Patagonia company. He appeared on the cover of Fortune magazine and was called the most successful businessman in the outdoor...
3. Britton Keeshan (1981)
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Britton Keeshan MD MPH is one of the youngest persons to climb the tallest mountains on all seven continents in a feat known as the Seven Summits. He accomplished this...
4. Peter Croft (climber) (1958)
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Peter Croft is a rock climber and mountaineer who was born in Canada on May 18 1958 and now lives in Bishop California. He has concentrated much of his rock...
5. Tom Hornbein (1930)
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Thomas Tom Hornbein is a well-known American mountaineer. Born in St. Louis Missouri Hornbein developed an interest in geology as a teenager. His study of geology led to a fascination...
6. Ben Clark (mountaineer) (1979)
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Ben Clark is a mountaineer and native of Clarksville Tennessee though he resides in Telluride Colorado. He starting rock climbing in his late teens and progressed to larger more challenging...
7. Samantha Larson (1988)
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Samantha Larson is an American mountain climber from Long Beach California. On May 16 2007 at the age of 18 she became temporarily the youngest non-Nepalese woman to summit Mount...
8. Arlene Blum (1945)
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Arlene Blum is an American mountaineer writer and environmental health scientist. She is best known for leading an all-woman ascent of Annapurna a climb that was also the first successful...
9. Charlie Fowler (1954)
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Charlie Fowler ) was an American mountain climber writer and photographer. He was one of North America’s most experienced mountain climbers and successfully climbed many of the world’s highest peaks....
10. Carlos Buhler (1954)
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Carlos Buhler is one of America's leading high altitude mountaineers.
11. Ed Viesturs (1959)
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Edmund Viesturs is a high-altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker. He is the only American to have climbed all fourteen of the world's eight-thousander mountain peaks and the fifth person to...
12. Sandy Hill (mountaineer) (1955)
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Sandra Hill is a socialite mountaineer author and former fashion editor. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster shortly after becoming the 34th woman to reach the Mt. Everest summit...
13. Marty Schmidt (1960)
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Martin Walter Schmidt was a New Zealand-American mountain climber and guide.
14. Peter Athans (1957)
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Pete Athans is one of the world's foremost high-altitude mountaineers. He is best known for being with Dave Hahn William Crouse and Ed Viesturs one of only four non-Sherpa to...
15. Jon Kedrowski (1979)
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Jonathan James Kedrowski is an author speaker ski-mountaineer and geographer. Kedrowski is best known for his many mountaineering accomplishments and ski descents: most notably in 2011 when he became the...
16. Christine Boskoff (1967)
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Christine Boskoff ) was an American mountaineer.
17. Melissa Arnot (1983)
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Melissa Arnot is an American mountaineer. She has summitted Mount Everest 5 times. The current female record holder is Lakpa Sherpa of Makalu village Nepal with 6 summits.
