Everest has always been a dream of youth from across the world and Australian’s have a share of glory with them, this year itself we have we have summiteers and lot of Australian visited the Everest Base Camp this season to give that respect to the Everest what is deserves from decades.
Thousands around the world have reached the summit of Everest, however, the mountain is not a place for amateurs. It requires respect, and it takes a skilled mountaineer with an enormous amount of courage and willpower to attempt the climb, and we applaud these ten Aussies who have completed the ultimate expedition
Lincoln Hall | 1984 | First Australian expedition to Everest in 1984 |
Tim Macartney-Snape | 1984 | |
Greg Mortimer | 1990 | first person to climb the South Face of Annapurna II, and four years after Everest. |
Michael Groom | 1993 | 1996 |
Brigitte Muir | 1993 | 1995 and 1996 |
Andrew Lock | 2000 | first Australian to lead a commercial expedition to the summit of Mount Everest. |
Cheryl and Nikki Bart | 2008 | Cheryl and her daughter Nikki became the first mother-daughter duo to reach the summit of Everest. |
Alyssa Azar | 2016 | |
Zac Zaharias | 2010 | Oldest Australian to summit Mount Everest and the second Australian Army representative to do so. |
Christine Jensen Burke | 2011 | only Australian or New Zealand woman to reach the summit of K2 and was the first woman from either country to climb the Seven Summits. |
Gabby Kanizay | 2022 | 19 years of age, Gabby Kanizay has become the youngest Australian to climb Mount Everest |
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