| 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 (19th 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 1st 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, 4th 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 |
Article ID: 220
Created: Wed, Jan 13, 2010
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