When Sir Ranulph Fiennes reached the summit of Mount Everest on the 21st May 2009 he was using bottled oxygen.
Up to the end of 2016 the number of climbers who have reached the summit of Mount Everest without oxygen is 197.
No he was not. Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb Mount Everest without artifical oxygen in 1978.
The first to reach the summit of Mount Everest without artificial oxygen were Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler on the 8th May 1978.
Lydia Bradey from New Zealand in 1988 was the first woman to climb Mount Everest without bottled oxygen
The first to reach the summit of Mount Everest without artificial oxygen were Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler on the 8th May 1978.
The first Italian to reach the summit of Mount Everest without artificial oxygen was Reinhold Messner on the 8th May 1978.
Babu chiri sherpa spent 20 hours atop Everest without the aid of oxygen. He slept in a custom designed tent.
Alison Hargreaves. On 13 May 1995 she reached the summit of Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen.
The first to reach the summit of Mount Everest without artificial oxygen were Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler on the 8th May 1978.
The first to reach the summit of Mount Everest without artificial oxygen were Reinhold Messner and Peter Habler on the 8th May 1978.
Edmund Hillary used oxygen from tanks on his back when he climbed to the summit of Mount Everest.
Lydia Bradey from New Zealand was the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without artifical oxygen on the 14th October 1988.