Edmund Hillary
Sir Edmund Percival Hillary (20 July 1919 – 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer, and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers confirmed to have reached the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt.
Evelina Tshabalala
Evelina Tshabalala (born 1965), a South African marathon runner and mountaineer, has climbed Mount Aconcagua and Mount Kilimanjaro. Her sponsors have said they would like her to be the first black African woman to climb Mount Everest.