Park Young-seok

Park Young-seok (1963 to 2011) was a South Korean mountaineer who in May 2005 became the first person in the world to complete a True Explorers Grand Slam, having climbed the 14 eight-thousanders and the Seven Summits and trekked to both poles. He climbed six of the 8,000-metre Himalayan peaks within one year and reached the South Pole on foot in 44 days, self-sufficient and without food re-supplies. In October 2011 he went missing with Shin Dong-min and Kang Ki-seok while attempting the south face of Annapurna, and the Korean Alpine Federation called off its search on 28 October and held a joint mountaineers' funeral. The Park Young-seok Mountain Culture Center, with an indoor climbing park, opened near his hometown in Seoul in 2019.