Maxut Zhumayev (born 23 December 1976) is a

Kazakhstan Kazakhstan, officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a landlocked country primarily in Central Asia, with a European Kazakhstan, small portion in Eastern Europe. It borders Russia to the Kazakhstan–Russia border, north and west, China to th ...

i mountaineer who climbed all 14 of the

eight-thousander The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains recognized by the International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) as being more than in height above sea level, and sufficiently independent of neighbouring peaks. There is no precise defin ...

peaks (i.e. mountains above 8,000 metres), and without using supplemental oxygen. Zhumayev was the 26th person to achieve this feat in history, and the 12th person to do so without using supplemental oxygen. Later, he founded the Kazakh Alpine Club.

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Living people 1977 births Kazakhstani mountain climbers Summiters of all 14 eight-thousanders Summiters of K2 Summiters of Mount Everest Summiters of Broad Peak {{climbing-bio-stub