Who is the oldest person to climb the 7 summits?

Werner Berger, a Canadian born in South Africa, finished the Carstensz Pyramid list on 21 November 2013 at 76, having already finished the Kosciuszko list on Everest at 69 in 2007. He is the oldest finisher on the leaderboards. Takao Arayama of Japan finished on Kilimanjaro at 74 in 2010, and Ramón Blanco of Spain finished the Kosciuszko list at 70 in 2003 and added Carstensz Pyramid at 73.

A new record under review

Art Muir of the United States reached the summit of Carstensz Pyramid on 21 October 2025 at 79, which would make him the oldest finisher by three years. He had become the oldest American on Everest at 75 in 2021. His record is listed as provisional while the dates of his earlier climbs are confirmed, and the leaderboards rank a record only once every date is settled.

The oldest women

Carol Masheter of the United States finished both lists in 2012 at 65, and Kay LeClaire of the United States finished the Carstensz Pyramid list at 60 in 2009 and the Kosciuszko list the year after. Several women have finished after 60, and the lists can be sorted to find them: open the finisher lists, choose a list and sort by age.

What age does to the odds

Most of the 7 summits are walks at altitude, and age matters less there than acclimatisation, pacing and patience, which older climbers often have more of. The exceptions are the cold on Denali and Vinson and the time above 8,000 m26,247 ft on Everest, where the body's reserves count, and where Nepal has debated an upper age limit after deaths of climbers in their seventies. Nothing on the 7 summits is ruled out at 60 or 70 by age alone; the statistics page measures how long finishers actually take, and the 7 summits in order of difficulty what each peak demands.