Doug Scott became the first Briton to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the 24th September 1975.
The first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest was Jim Whittaker on the 1st May 1963.
On the 16th 1975 May Junko Tabei from Japan became the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest
The first person to climb Ben Nevis was the botanist James Robertson in 1771.
Sir Alexander McKenzie was the first person to climb the rocky mountains
In 1913 Hudson Stuck was the first to climb Mount McKinley.
Italian Reinhold Messner was the first person to climb all 14 eight thousanders from 1970 to 1986. He was also the first person to climb Everest without the help of oxygen in 1978.
Two British climbers, Joe Brown and George Band made the first ascent on Mount Kanchenjunga on May 25th 1955.
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António de Saldanha was the first to climb Table Mountain in 1503
Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb to the summit of Mount Everest in 1953.
The first person to climb Mount Elbert was H. W. Stuckle in 1874