Veikka Gustafsson

Veikka Gustafsson (born 1968) is a Finnish climber who has ascended all 14 eight-thousanders without supplemental oxygen, the 17th person to summit all fourteen and the 9th to do so without it. In 1993 he became the first Finn to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and in spring 1997 the first Finn to do so without bottled oxygen. Research published in 2022 estimated that he is one of only three climbers to have stood on the true geographical summit of every eight-thousander. He climbed six of the 8000ers with Ed Viesturs, and was with him on Annapurna in 2005 when Viesturs completed his own list. He also made first ascents in Antarctica in 1997, presents a Finnish television travel show and leases the Porkkala Lighthouse.