First Expeditioners In World History

Expeditions	Expeditioners
The first person to reach the North Pole by overland journey	Robert Peary
The first person to reach the South Pole	Amundsen
The first person to have climbed Mount Everest	Sherpa Tenzing (19^th May, 1953)
The first person to sail around the world	Magellan
The first woman to conquer Mount Everest	Mrs. Junko Tabei (of Japan)
The first man to have climbed Mount Everest twice	Nawang Gombu
The first vessel ever to reach the North Pole by sailing through the thick Arctic ice	Soviet Arktika Atomic-powered (ice-breaker)
The leader of the expedition 'Ocean to Sky'	Sir Edmund Hillary
The first two mountaineers who reached the summit of Everest without using oxygen	Peter Habeler (Austrian) and Reinhold Messner (Italian)
The first person to reach North Pole by 7 dogs sledge	Naomi Uemura (Japanese)
The leader of the 1^st Indian Antarctic Expedition	Z.A. Kasim
The first Pakistani to scale Mount Everest	Nazir Sabir
The first blind man to reach Mount Everest	Eric Weihenmayer (U.S.A., May 25, 2001)
The first couple to reach Everest	Phil and Susan Ershler (May 17, 2002)
The first man to circumnavigate the world by a Balloon Flight	Steve Fossett
The oldest man to reach Mount Everest	Yuichiro Miura (Japan, May 2003)
The Youngest on Everest	Ming Kipa (15 years old Nepalese Sherpa girl) (24 May, 2003)
The first woman in the world, parachuting down from 2400 feet above the North Pole	Shital Mahajan
The first woman to climb Mount Everest four times successfully	Sherpa Lakpa (Nepali woman, 4^th climb, May 19, 2004)
The first woman to swim across seven seas	Bula Choudhury (India)
The first person to circumnavigate the globe on a solo, non-stop, non-refueled flight	Steve Fossett (USA) (March, 2005)
The first man to establish world record of flight in a hot air balloon	Vijayat Singhania, November 26, 2005, height of flight 69852 ft.
The first man to establish a world record of non-stop flight for the longest yet distance.	Steve Fossett of USA (February 2006)
The first double amputee to scale Mount Everest	Mark Inglis (The New Zealander performed the feat on May 15, 2006)
India's first Research Station at the Arctic	Himadri, inaugurated on July 8, 2008