View Mountaineer Who Climbed Mt Everest 6 Times Pics. Despite two hard years of disaster (2014 and 2015), by the end of 2016 there were 7,646 summits by 4,469 people. The guinness world record has also recognised him as the first man to climb everest in winter without supplementary oxygen in december 1987.
By 2013, 6,871 summits have been recorded by 4,042 people.
Most climbers spend months or even years before even thinking about making it to the himalayas. Most were on the nepalese side; This includes arriving in the best time to climb mount everest is in late april and may. Scaling the world's tallest mountains is a feat in and of its own—doing it while blind is extraordinary.