Sibusiso Vilane – Meet the First Black Man to Summit Everest
Sibusiso Vilane started climbing Mountains after meeting John Doble in 1996 by summiting peaks in the Drakensberg. In 1999 he summited Kilimanjaro and went on to the Himalayas in 2002, where he successfully climbed Pokalde, Lobujé and Island Peak as part of pre-Everest climbs, they were the only mountains he had climbed in his life before his attempt of Mount Everest. On the 26 May 2003 he stood on the summit of Mount Everest becoming the first black person in the world to achieve this feat. He walked down the mountain a transformed man. From there on he never looked back. He did it again in 2005 by climbing the same mountain from the North side. He has climbed all the seven summits and a number of known Peaks in the Alps, The Matterhorn,Mont Blanc and the Eiger via the Mittelegi Ridge. He has walked to both North and South Poles.
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