Simone Moro

Simone Moro (born 1967 in Bergamo) is an Italian mountaineer and alpinist known for making first winter ascents of four of the fourteen eight-thousanders: Shishapangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum II in 2011 and Nanga Parbat in 2016. No other climber has made more first winter ascents of an eight-thousander. He has summited Everest four times, in 2000, 2002, 2006 and 2010. He is also an experienced helicopter pilot: in 2013 he and two other rescue experts carried out the highest long-line helicopter rescue on record, on Lhotse at 7,800 metres, and in 2015 he set a new helicopter flight altitude record of 6,705 metres.