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Detailed explanation-1: -Satyarup became: First from India to complete Volcanic Seven Summits. First from India to climb Mt Sidley, highest volcano of Antarctica. First from India to climb Mt Giluwe, the highest volcano of Papua New Guinea.

Detailed explanation-2: -Satyarup Siddhanta is an Indian mountaineer who is the first Indian and the youngest mountaineer (at age 36) in the world to climb both the Seven Volcanic Summits and the Seven Summits. He achieved this feat on 15 January 2019. He is also the first Indian to climb-

Detailed explanation-3: -George Atkinson (born 29 May 1994) is an English climber. At the age of sixteen he became the youngest ever person to complete the Seven Summits Challenge by climbing to the summit of the highest mountain on each of seven continents.

Detailed explanation-4: -The first person to complete Seven Summits without the use of supplemental oxygen on Mount Everest is Reinhold Messner. Miroslav Caban is the second climber to finish the project without supplemental oxygen on Everest (finished in 2005 with Carstensz). Ed Viesturs also summitted all peaks without supplemental oxygen.

Detailed explanation-5: -Richard Bass, a poetry-spouting Texas oilman who was the first climber to scale the highest peak on each of the seven continents and for a time was the oldest to top Mount Everest, died July 26 at his home in Dallas. He was 85.