Legendary Mountaineers
Legendary Mountaineers is a structured people dataset with 17 entries. Its fields include Name, Country, Lifespan. The source values are preserved as a structured reference table.
Every row is shown below and is also available as CSV, JSON, or Excel.
Dataset details
- Table scope
- All 17 rows
- Fields
- 5 columns
- Source
- Community curated
- Data updated
- Apr 9, 2026
Included fields: Name, Country, Lifespan, Era, Known For.
The table contains every record in this dataset; the same records are available in each download format.
Preview observations
- Lifespan span
- 1909 to 1983
- Across 17 preview rows
- Country groups
- 12 distinct values
- Across 17 preview rows
Useful for
- Comparing Name, Country, and Lifespan across people entries
- Building reference tables, charts, or analyses from 17 downloadable records
Name↕ | Country↕ | Lifespan↕ | Era↕ | Known For↕ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Edmund Hillary | New Zealand | 1919-2008 | Golden Age | First confirmed ascent of Mount Everest with Tenzing Norgay on May 29, 1953 |
Tenzing Norgay | Nepal/India | 1914-1986 | Golden Age | Sherpa who reached the Everest summit with Hillary in 1953, symbol of Himalayan climbing |
Reinhold Messner | Italy | 1944-present | Modern | First to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, first solo ascent of Everest without oxygen (1980) |
Walter Bonatti | Italy | 1930-2011 | Golden Age | Solo winter ascent of the Matterhorn north face (1965), K2 1954 drama, alpine purist |
Jerzy Kukuczka | Poland | 1948-1989 | Modern | Second person to climb all 14 eight-thousanders, most via new routes or in winter |
Lhakpa Sherpa | Nepal | 1973-present | Contemporary | Most Everest summits by a woman (10 times), balanced climbing career with life as a single mother |
Junko Tabei | Japan | 1939-2016 | Modern | First woman to summit Everest (1975) and first woman to complete the Seven Summits |
Anatoli Boukreev | Kazakhstan | 1958-1997 | Modern | High-altitude speedster, hero of the 1996 Everest disaster, died on Annapurna |
Chris Bonington | United Kingdom | 1934-present | Golden Age | Led expeditions on Annapurna South Face and Everest South-West Face, British alpinism icon |
Hermann Buhl | Austria | 1924-1957 | Golden Age | First ascent of Nanga Parbat in 1953 solo from high camp, died on Chogolisa |
Riccardo Cassin | Italy | 1909-2009 | Classic | Pioneering routes on Piz Badile, Grandes Jorasses, Denali's Cassin Ridge, alpine master |
Gaston Rebuffat | France | 1921-1985 | Classic | First person to climb the six great north faces of the Alps, Annapurna 1950 team member |
Catherine Destivelle | France | 1960-present | Modern | Solo winter first ascents in the Alps, direttissima on the Eiger north face |
Ueli Steck | Switzerland | 1976-2017 | Contemporary | Speed records on Eiger, Matterhorn and Grandes Jorasses north faces, the Swiss Machine |
Nirmal Purja | Nepal | 1983-present | Contemporary | Climbed all 14 eight-thousanders in under 7 months (2019), led first winter K2 ascent in 2021 |
Conrad Anker | United States | 1962-present | Modern | Found Mallory's body on Everest in 1999, Shark's Fin on Meru with Jimmy Chin |
Wanda Rutkiewicz | Poland | 1943-1992 | Modern | First European woman on Everest, first woman on K2, disappeared on Kangchenjunga |
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Frequently asked questions
How is Legendary Mountaineers organized?
The table starts in the source data's default order. You can sort and filter the loaded rows by the displayed fields.
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This dataset contains 17 entries, and every row is available in the table and in the downloadable files.
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