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Lydia Bradey

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Lydia Bradey

Lydia Bradey with Slovak mountaineers at Everest base camp on her 27th birthday, 9 October 1988, a few days before she summited the peak without using supplementary oxygen. 

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John Wilson, Mountaineering – New Zealand climbers overseas, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/47316/lydia-bradey (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by John Wilson, published 11 March 2020, updated 1 February 2017.