Editing Mount Everest (section)

==Extreme sports==

Mount Everest has been host to other winter sports and adventuring besides mountaineering, including snowboarding, skiing, paragliding, and BASE jumping.

[[Yuichiro Miura]] became the first man to ski down Everest in the 1970s. He descended nearly {{convert|4200|ft|m|order=flip|adj=pre| vertical }} from the South Col before falling with extreme injuries.<ref name=japtimes/> Stefan Gatt and Marco Siffredi snowboarded Mount Everest in 2001.<ref name="TransWorld SNOWboarding">{{cite news|url=http://snowboarding.transworld.net/uncategorized/mount-everest-snowboard-controversy-solved/|title=Mount Everest Snowboard Controversy Solved|date=27 June 2001|newspaper=Snowboarder|access-date=20 September 2015}}</ref> Other Everest skiers include [[Davo Karničar]] of Slovenia, who completed a top to South Base Camp descent in 2000, [[Hans Kammerlander]] of Italy in 1996 on the north side,<ref name="kammerlander">{{cite web | url=http://www.igluski.com/features/skiing-everest | title=Skiing Down Mount Everest and the World's Highest Peaks | publisher=igluski.com | access-date=17 June 2016}}</ref> and Kit DesLauriers of the United States in 2006.<ref name=Hawley>{{cite book|last=Salisbury|first=Richard|title=The Himalayan database the expedition archives of Elizabeth Hawley|year=2004|publisher=American Alpine Club Press|location=Golden, CO|isbn=978-0-930410-99-5|url=http://www.himalayandatabase.com}}</ref> In 2006 Swede [[Tomas Olsson]] and Norwegian [[Tormod Granheim]] skied together down the North Face. Olsson's anchor broke while they were [[rappelling]] down a cliff in the Norton couloir at about 8,500 metres, resulting in his death from a two and a half-kilometre fall. Granheim skied down to camp III.<ref name=skii>{{cite web|url=http://www.travelexplorations.com/tomas-olsson-found-dead-skiing-down-from-the-north-side-of-mount-everest-ended-in-tradegy.326749-18558.html|title=Tomas Olsson found dead – Skiing down from the North side of Mount Everest ended in tragedy!|website=travelexplorations.com|access-date=20 September 2015}}</ref> Also, Marco Siffredi died in 2002 on his second snow-boarding expedition.<ref name="TransWorld SNOWboarding"/>

Various types of gliding descents have slowly become more popular, and are noted for their rapid descents to lower camps. In 1986 [[Steve McKinney (skier)|Steve McKinney]] led an expedition to Mount Everest,<ref name="Unsworth2000">{{cite book|author=Walt Unsworth|title=Everest: The Mountaineering History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=STs1loP7sfsC|year=2000|publisher=Mountaineers|location=London|isbn=978-0-89886-670-4|page=626}}</ref> during which he became the first person to fly a [[hang-gliding|hang-glider]] off the mountain.<ref name=glider/> Frenchman [[Jean-Marc Boivin]] made the first [[paraglider]] descent of Everest in September 1988, descending in minutes from the Southeast Ridge to a lower camp.<ref name="A view from the top of the world"/> In 2011, two Nepalis made a gliding descent from the Everest summit down {{convert|16400|ft|m|order=flip}} in 45 minutes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/trips/bucket-list/2013/ultimate-descent/|title=Ultimate Adventure Bucket List – Dream Trip: Make the Ultimate Descent|author1=Sano Babu Sunuwar|author2=Lakpa Tsheri Sherpa|name-list-style=amp|website=National Geographic|access-date=20 September 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150918123049/http://adventure.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/trips/bucket-list/2013/ultimate-descent/|archive-date=18 September 2015}}</ref> On 5 May 2013, the beverage company [[Red Bull]] sponsored [[Valery Rozov]], who successfully BASE jumped off of the mountain while wearing a [[wingsuit]], setting a record for world's highest BASE jump in the process.<ref name="Everest Base Jumper">{{cite web|url=http://www.redbull.com/us/en/adventure/stories/1331647282718/watch-a-record-setting-base-jump-from-mt-everest|title=Everest Base Jumper|date=20 February 2017 |publisher=Red Bull}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Cooper|first=Tarquin|date=28 May 2013|url=http://www.redbull.com/en/adventure/stories/1331592877474/valery-rozov-base-mount-everest|title=Valery Rozov BASE Jumps From Mt Everest|publisher=[[Red Bull]]}}</ref>