Geri Winkler, born in Vienna on 13 April 1956, is an Austrian mountaineer who was the first insulin-dependent diabetic to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He is the first person to have visited every country in the world and climbed the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on each continent, according to both the Messner and Bass lists. He worked as a mathematics teacher in Vienna, and his wife has accompanied him on most of his travels.
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