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Law professor Manasvi Agarwal of Udaipur reached the summit of Everest in May 2026 and was treated for severe frostbite in Kathmandu after a long descent to Camp 2. Bhaskar English reports she climbed Elbrus, Kilimanjaro, Vinson, Aconcagua and Everest between August 2025 and May 2026. Two members of her Everest team died on the mountain. She says Denali and a peak in Australia are next.
Chris Kelly, 57, covered 40.656 kilometres on a SkiErg in Bangor in 3 hours 12 minutes, one metre for each metre of height on the 7 summits. He has raised more than £1,500 for S.P.O.R.T.S., a suicide prevention charity that works through sport.
Eva Steinwald stood on top of Everest on 18 May 2025, at 63, briefly the oldest American woman to have done so. Widowed in 2018, she has set herself the 7 summits by 70. Aconcagua, Denali, Everest and Kilimanjaro are done, and Vinson and Carstensz Pyramid are next.
Spanish climber Carlos Soria, now 87, started his 7 summits with Elbrus in 1968 and finished on Kilimanjaro on 23 January 2010, days before his 71st birthday. The Spanish travel title Viajar has published a summary of his climbing life, including his return to Manaslu in 2025 at the age of 86. Ten of the 8000-metre peaks he has climbed came after he turned 60.
Costa Rican climber Ligia Madrigal, the first woman from her country to summit Everest, has announced a schedule to complete the 7 summits by early 2028. Carstensz Pyramid in Papua, Indonesia is planned for October 2026, followed by Denali, Kilimanjaro and Vinson. Costa Rican outlets report she has three of the peaks behind her and is looking for financial sponsors for the rest.
Erin Ton, a 29-year-old runner from Colorado, climbed Kilimanjaro from Mweka Gate to Uhuru Peak in 5 hours 47 minutes in early September 2026, and completed the round trip in 8 hours 33 minutes. Both times are reported as women's records on the mountain, improving on marks held by Kristina Schou Madsen and Fernanda Maciel. It is the second of the 7 summits where Ton has set a women's speed mark, after Aconcagua earlier this year.
Robert Alt, chief executive of The Buckeye Institute in Columbus, Ohio, completed the 7 summits with an ascent of Elbrus in 2026, according to the Columbus Dispatch. He carried his late father's ashes to each summit, and his first Elbrus attempt in 2017 ended below the top with high-altitude pulmonary edema. The Dispatch reports his list was complete as of 1 July 2026.
David Gray, an Australian who works at the Perth recruitment firm DRD Group, completed the 7 summits on Elbrus in August 2026, his employer announced on 24 August. Its post names all seven of his peaks with Kosciuszko as the Australian one, which puts him on the Bass list. His entry is provisional while the dates of the other six climbs are filled in.
Óscar Arroyo Úbeda, a mountaineer from Zizur Mayor in Navarra, finished the 7 summits on Everest on 20 May 2026, fourteen years after his first summit on Aconcagua. His Oceania peak was Carstensz Pyramid, and five of his seven ascents are known to the day, most of them from accounts he wrote himself. In August his town chose him to light the rocket that opens its festival.
Jeffery Arnold, a Canadian climber, reached the summit of Everest on 27 May 2026 in Madison Mountaineering's final summit party of the season. The Seven Summits Registry lists him as a 7 summits finisher with Everest as his last peak, and his record is in our moderation queue while the other six ascents are researched.
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