Lars Olof Göran Kropp was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support. Kropp’s father took him up Galdhøpiggen, Norway, the highest peak in Scandinavia in 1972.
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Lars Olof Göran Kropp was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support in May 1996, for which he travelled by bicycle, alone, from Sweden and part-way back. Kropp’s father took him up Galdhøpiggen, Norway, the highest peak in Scandinavia in 1972. In 1988, Kropp traveled to climb his first major peak, Lenin Peak, located on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan. In 1989, he had hopes of climbing Cho Oyu, but he had no permit. Instead, he went to South America and climbed Iliniza Sur, Cotopaxi, Illimani, Huayna Potosi and Illampu.
In 1992, he finally obtained permits to climbCho Oyu. In 1994, he returned again to Karakoram, accompanied by Andrew Lock and the Swedish climbers Mats Holmgren and Nicolas Gafgo. On the first attempt at Broad Peak, he reached the main summit, and after a fast, fast, non-stop climb, he succeeded. In 1995, he left Stockholm on 16 October 1995, on a specially-designed bicycle with 108 kilograms of food and traveled 13,000 kilometres on the bicycle and arrived at Everest Base Camp in April 1996. On 3 May, he climbed through thigh-deep snow and reached the South Summit, a point 100 metres from the summit.
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