Johann Peries

Johann Peries is a Sri Lankan adventurer and mountaineer who also works as a hair stylist, owning salons in Colombo and London. He took up rock climbing as a youth and climbed the Knuckles Mountain Range with his father, reached Everest Base Camp in 2010 and in 2011 teamed up with Jayanthi Kuru-Utumpala for expeditions that included Adam's Peak, Island Peak and Kilimanjaro. In April 2016 the pair made the first Sri Lankan attempt on Mount Everest; his oxygen failed about 400 metres below the top at 8,400 metres, while Kuru-Utumpala reached the summit. On 22 May 2018, with his own support team, he became the first Sri Lankan man to summit Everest. He then pursued the Seven Summits, climbing Kilimanjaro, Elbrus and Kosciuszko, and became the first Sri Lankan to summit Mount Vinson in Antarctica in January 2025.