Renata Chlumska

Swedish mountain climber (born 1973)

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Redpoint: Mount Everest 8,850 metres

Known forFirst Swedish and Czech woman to climb Mount Everest. Updated on 13 January 2015

Renata Chlumska (born 9 December 1973 in Malmö, Sweden) is an adventurer and mountain climber. Born to Czech parents, she has both Swedish and Czech citizenship.

On 5 May 1999, she became the first Swedish and Czech woman to climb Mount Everest.^[1]

During 2005 and 2006 she performed a challenge called "Around America Adventure" in the lower 48 states of the United States.^[2] She paddled a kayak from Seattle to San Diego, bicycled with the kayak on a carriage from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, continued kayaking around Florida to Eastport, Maine, and then bicycled back to Seattle. She became the first person to circumnavigate 32 states by bicycle and kayak.^[3]

She was engaged to Göran Kropp when he died in a climbing accident.

References

^ "Åttonde svensken på Mount Everest" (in Swedish). SVT. 22 May 2005. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
^ "National Geographic Adventure Mag.: Q&A with Swedish Mountaineer Renata Chlumska" National Geographic, August 2003. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
^ "Around America, by land and by sea" The Seattle Times, 18 September 2006. Retrieved 13 January 2015.