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David Liaño González (born December 19, 1979) is the first
mountaineer Mountaineering or alpinism, is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending tall mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas. Indoor climbing, sport climbing, an ...
to double summit on
Mount Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is List of highest mountains on Earth, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border ru ...
from both the Nepal and Tibet sides, which he has climbed seven times so far. He has climbed both versions of the
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Liaño Gonzalez has also lived in Seattle, Washington in the United States where he is also known as David Liano. When he brought a fan flag of a Seattle sports team to the summit of Everest in 2016, it made news stories across that country.


Early life

David Liaño González was born in
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,
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. His career began with climbing the Mexican volcanoes and in 2003 he began to participate in international expeditions with Club Alpino Mexicano, mostly to Bolivia where he summitted Tarija Peak (5,060m), Pequeño Alpamayo (5,300m), Condoriri (5,648m) and Huayna Potosí (6,088m). He is married to Prarthana Purushothaman, and lives in Seattle.


Seven Summits

Liaño González completed both versions of the
Seven Summits The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven traditional continents. Climbing to the summit of all of them is regarded as a mountaineering challenge, first achieved on 30 April 1985 by Richard Bass. Climbing the Seven Summits a ...
on August 18, 2006, taking 2 years and 195 days to complete the project:


Climbing Mount Everest

Liaño González climbed
Mount Everest Mount Everest (; Tibetic languages, Tibetan: ''Chomolungma'' ; ) is List of highest mountains on Earth, Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas. The China–Nepal border ru ...
on May 11, 2013 from the south side in Nepal. Returning to
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on May 13, he was again atop the Everest on May 19, this time from the north side. Liaño Gonzalez summited in 2016 achieving his sixth summiting of Everest.


See also

* List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit


References


External links


Everest 2013: Interview with David Liano – Double Summit
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