Kazi Sherpa ( ne, काजी शेर्पा) as confirmed by the Everest Summiteers Association,
and as confirmed by Everest historian
Elizabeth Hawley
Elizabeth Hawley (9 November 1923 – 26 January 2018) was an American journalist, author, and chronicler of Himalayan mountaineering expeditions. Hawley's ''The Himalayan Database'' became the unofficial record for climbs in the Nepalese Himal ...
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holds the current speed climbing record on
Mount Everest
Mount Everest (; Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border runs across its summit point. Its elevation (snow heig ...
for the South Col Route, from basecamp to the summit, without oxygen from basecamp to the summit.
Kazi's record was set on the South Col Route, without supplemental oxygen, without steroid drug assistance (
Dexamethasone
Dexamethasone is a glucocorticoid medication used to treat rheumatic problems, a number of skin diseases, severe allergies, asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, croup, brain swelling, eye pain following eye surgery, superior vena cav ...
), and without Sherpa assistance or guide assistance. Set in 1998, his time was 20 hours 24 minutes, from the basecamp to the summit, thereby breaking the previous record set by
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ten years earlier in 1988 by 22 hours and 29 minutes.
References
See also
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Mount Everest records
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List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at is currently the world's highest mountain and is a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers. This is a list of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest in the 20th century. Overall about 1,383 people summited Everes ...
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List of Mount Everest records
This article lists different records related to Mount Everest. One of the most commonly sought after records is a "summit", to reach the highest elevation point on Mount Everest.
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Highest number of times to reach the summit
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Living people
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Date of birth missing (living people)
Year of birth missing (living people)