Jaime Viñals Massanet (born November 17, 1966) is a

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n mountaineer, the first person from

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and

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region ever to climb the Earth's highest peak,

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, after reaching the summit together with the American Andy Lakpass and the Danish Asmus Noreslet on an expedition from New Zealand organized by Russell Brice, Since then, he became one of the few people to have reached the Seven Summits - the highest mountains of each of the seven ( sub-)

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s. also he has finished to climb the Seven Islands of the World.

Biography

In January 2023, completed the challenge of the Trilogy 7 Summits + 7 Islands + 7 Volcanoes of the World, which consists of climbing the Seven Summits of the World, plus the Seven Islands of the World, plus the Seven Volcanic Summits of the World. Seven Summits of the World is reaching the highest peak of the seven continents of the planet, these are: Mt. Aconcagua (South America); Mt. Denali (North America); Mt. Kilimanjaro (Africa); Mt. Elbrus (Europe); Carstensz Pyramid and/or Mt. Kosciusko (Oceania); Mt. Vinson (Antarctica) and Mt. Everest (Asia). Seven Islands of the World is reaching the top of the highest peaks of the seven largest islands in the world, these are: Mt. Kerinci (island of Sumatra); Mt. Kinabalu (island of Borneo); Mt. Fuji (Honshu Island); Mt. Whilhelm (New Guinea Island); Mt. Tete Blanche (Baffin Island); Mt. Gunnbjorns Fjeld (Greenland island) and Mt. Maromokotro (Madagascar island). Seven Volcanic Summits of the World is to reach the top of the highest volcano of the seven continents of the planet, these are: Ojos del Salado (South America); Pico de Orizaba (North America); Kilimanjaro (Africa); Elbrus (Europe); Damavand (Asia); Giluwe (Oceania) and Sidley (Antarctica). On January 18, 2023, he reached the summit of the Sidley volcano in Antarctica together with Celine Jaccard (Switzerland);Nilavishek Mukherjee (India);Caroline Leon (Australia);Marie-Pier Desharnais (Canada);Adrian Ahritculesei (Romania);Vambola Sipelgas (Estonia);Thierry Dewambrechies (France);Robert Gropel (Australia) & Eli Potter (Alaska). On an expedition organized by Antarctic Logistics. This summit allowed him to be the first person in the World to have completed the project of the 7+7+7 Trilogy. He has published seven books titled: 1) The Mountain is my destiny (1999) 2) Everest... that's how I conquered its top (2001) 3) The Conquest of Seven Challenges (2002) 4) Beyond Everest (2004) 5) See you at the top ( 2006) 6) Guatemala... land of volcanoes (2008) 7) It all starts with a dream (2022). All written in Spanish currently. All can be purchased in digital format (eBook) on his website: https://www.jaimevinals.shop and https://www.jaimevinals.com sites where there is extensive information about the life of Jaime Viñals, his achievements and his upcoming challenges, as well as such as motivational, coaching and leadership messages. Born in

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, Viñals studied

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at the Universidad de San Carlos. He began climbing locally in 1987, aged 26. Since then, he has climbed over 300 mountains in 42 countries. Viñals first attempted to get to the top of Mount Everest in the spring of 1994. After having passed the 8,000 meters mark, the expedition was unsuccessful at reaching the summit due to the inclement weather, and had to return. The group, however, succeeded at establishing a new ascending route. Viñals returned to the Everest in the spring of 1999, climbing through the South Col route. While climbing, he injured himself, again unable to complete the ascent. Viñals had climbed all the other peaks of the Seven Summits challenge, including the ones listed on alternate definitions of the summit list, but still had not reached the peak of Everest. In 2001, he attempted the ascent for the third time. Using the less frequented North Col as the climbing route, he and others reached the summit of the Everest on May 23. Viñals became the third

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person to climb to the peak of Everest and to complete the ascent to the Seven Summits, and the first from

or the

to achieve such feats. In 2002, Viñals embarked on an attempt to climb the highest peak of each of the seven largest islands in the world. This project involves climbing the highest summit of the seven largest islands of the world: Viñals has been involved in a project to climb the '50 Most Prominent Peaks on Earth'. As of March 2016 he has attained 33 of them.

Honours

In 1995, Viñals was awarded the '' Orden del Quetzal'' from Guatemalan President Ramiro de León Carpio.

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* Spanish / Englis
Official Web Site
* Spanish / Englis
Official Web Site

Terra.com Dedicated web site
Guatemalan mountain climbers Summiters of Mount Everest 1966 births Living people People from Guatemala City Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala alumni 20th-century Guatemalan people 21st-century Guatemalan people {{climbing-bio-stub

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