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Veikka Gustafsson

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Eero Veikka Juhani Gustafsson, known as Veikka Gustafsson (born 14 January 1968) is a Finnish mountaineer who has ascended all 14 eight-thousanders in the world without the use of supplemental oxygen. [1]

30 relations: Alps, Annapurna Massif, Broad Peak, Cho Oyu, Dhaulagiri, Ed Viesturs, Eight-thousander, Finland, Finns, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II, Himalayas, Ismoil Somoni Peak, K2, Kangchenjunga, Kazuya Hiraide, Lhotse, List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit, Makalu, Manaslu, Mount Everest, Mount Gardner, Mount Sisu, Mountaineering, Nanga Parbat, Oxygen, Pamir Mountains, Peak Korzhenevskaya, Shishapangma, Vinson Massif.

Alps

The Alps (Alpes; Alpen; Alpi; Alps; Alpe) are the highest and most extensive mountain range system that lies entirely in Europe,The Caucasus Mountains are higher, and the Urals longer, but both lie partly in Asia.

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Annapurna Massif

Annapurna (Sanskrit, Nepali, Newar: अन्नपूर्णा) is a massif in the Himalayas in north-central Nepal that includes one peak over, thirteen peaks over, and sixteen more over.

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Broad Peak

Broad Peak (بروڈ پیک) is the 12th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Cho Oyu

Cho Oyu (Nepali: चोयु) is the sixth highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Dhaulagiri

The Dhaulagiri massif in Nepal extends from the Kaligandaki River west to the Bheri.

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Ed Viesturs

Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is a high-altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker.

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Eight-thousander

The eight-thousanders are the 14 independentIn making any "highest mountains" list, one needs to use a criterion to exclude subpeaks and only list independent mountains.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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Finns

Finns or Finnish people (suomalaiset) are a Finnic ethnic group native to Finland.

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Gasherbrum I

Gasherbrum I (گاشر برم -1), surveyed as K5 and also known as Hidden Peak, is the 11th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Gasherbrum II

Gasherbrum II (گاشر برم -2); surveyed as K4, is the 13th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Himalayas

The Himalayas, or Himalaya, form a mountain range in Asia separating the plains of the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau.

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Ismoil Somoni Peak

Junko Tabei climbing the peak in 1985 Ismoil Somoni Peak (Tajik: Қуллаи Исмоили Сомонӣ, Qulla-i Ismō‘il-i Sōmōnî/Qullaji Ismojili Somonī; قلّهٔ اسماعیل سامانی) is the highest mountain in Tajikistan.

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K2

K2 (کے ٹو), also known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori (Balti and چھوغوری),, at above sea level, is the second highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest, at.

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Kangchenjunga

Kangchenjunga (कञ्चनजङ्घा; कंचनजंघा; ཁང་ཅེན་ཛོཾག་), also spelled Kanchenjunga, is the third highest mountain in the world, and lies partly in Nepal and partly in Sikkim, India.

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Kazuya Hiraide

from Fujimi, Nagano Prefecture, is a Japanese ski mountaineer, Alpine climber, and professional mountain cameraman.

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Lhotse

Lhotse (ल्होत्से;, lho rtse) is the fourth highest mountain in the world at, after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga.

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List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit

The list consists of people who reached the summit of Mount Everest more than once.

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Makalu

Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world at.

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Manaslu

Manaslu (मनास्लु, also known as Kutang) is the eighth highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Mount Everest

Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.

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Mount Gardner

Mount Gardner is a mountain, high, standing west of Mount Tyree in the west-central part of the Sentinel Range, in the Ellsworth Mountains of Antarctica.

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Mount Sisu

Mount Sisu is a mountain in the Antarctic.

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Mountaineering

Mountaineering is the sport of mountain climbing.

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Nanga Parbat

Nanga Parbat (Urdu), locally known as Diamer, is the ninth highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Oxygen

Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.

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Pamir Mountains

The Pamir Mountains, or the Pamirs, are a mountain range in Central Asia at the junction of the Himalayas with the Tian Shan, Karakoram, Kunlun, Hindu Kush, Suleman and Hindu Raj ranges.

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Peak Korzhenevskaya

Korzhenevskaya Peak is the third highest peak in the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan.

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Shishapangma

Shishapangma, also called Gosainthān, is the 14th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.

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Vinson Massif

Vinson Massif is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is long and wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veikka_Gustafsson

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