Park Young-seok

Korean spelling
Hangeul	박영석
Hanja	朴英碩
Revised Romanization	Bak Yeong-seok
McCune- Reischauer	Pak Yŏngsŏk
See also : Korean name

Park Young-seok (born November 2, 1963 , † missing from Annapurna since October 18, 2011 ) was a South Korean mountaineer .

He became known as the first person to reach the Explorers Grand Slam . This means that he climbed all 14 eight-thousanders and the Seven Summits and reached both the North and South Poles . In October 2011, Park Young-seok wanted to climb Annapurna in a team of three on a new route on the south-west flank. He and his companions got caught in a snow storm and an avalanche and have been missing ever since.

Park was the eighth climber ever and the first in his home country to climb all eight-thousanders . He completed the series between May 16, 1993 and July 22, 2001, i.e. in 8 years, 2 months and 8 days. In 1997 the park climbed four eight-thousanders and in 2000 it climbed three eight-thousanders.

He reached the last of the Seven Summits on November 24, 2002. He climbed both the Carstensz pyramid and Mount Kosciuszko .

It reached the South Pole on January 14, 2004 and the North Pole on April 30, 2005. He was the first person to make this Adventure Grand Slam . After him, this has only been achieved by the Chinese Zhang Liang.

Table of his achievements

date	target	annotation
May 16, 1993	Mount Everest	Ascent with additional oxygen
1994	Cho Oyu
0June 2, 1994	Mount McKinley
0May 4, 1996	Annapurna
Feb. 17, 1997	Kilimanjaro
Apr 27, 1997	Dhaulagiri
0July 9, 1997	Gasherbrum I
July 19, 1997	Gasherbrum II
27 Sep 1997	Cho Oyu
July 21, 1998	Nanga Parbat
0Dec 6, 1998	Manaslu	Ascent in the meteorological winter
May 12, 1999	Kangchenjunga	Ascent with additional oxygen
May 15, 2000	Makalu	Ascent with additional oxygen
July 30, 2000	Broad Peak
0Oct 2, 2000	Shishapangma
Apr 29, 2001	Lhotse	Ascent with additional oxygen
July 22, 2001	K2	Ascent with additional oxygen
Nov 21, 2001	Mount Kosciuszko
Jan. 11, 2002	Aconcagua
May 11, 2002	Carstensz pyramid
0July 7, 2002	Elbrus
Nov 25, 2002	Mount Vinson
Jan. 14, 2004	South Pole
Apr 30, 2005	North Pole
May 11, 2006	Mount Everest	North-south crossing; with additional oxygen
May 20, 2009	Mount Everest	First ascent in the SW wall; with additional oxygen

Web links

• Park Young-seok website (Korean)
• Table with people who reached the "three poles"
• List of people who made the seven summits
• Table with all people who have climbed all eight-thousanders, www.8000ers.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ It's over: search for Korean climbers called off. In: ExplorersWeb. October 31, 2011, accessed November 2, 2011 . 
2. ↑ https://news.cgtn.com/news/3d3d774e304d544f78457a6333566d54/share_p.html
3. ^ Three Korean Heros of Himalaya. (No longer available online.) Union of Aisan Alpine Associations, archived from the original on May 12, 2012 ; accessed on November 2, 2011 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Korean. Park is the family name here, Young-seok is the first name.