The Most Famous

MOUNTAINEERS from Malaysia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Malaysian Mountaineers. The pantheon dataset contains 56 Mountaineers, 1 of which were born in Malaysia. This makes Malaysia the birth place of the 15th most number of Mountaineers behind Japan, and Lithuania.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Malaysian Mountaineers of all time. This list of famous Malaysian Mountaineers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Joe Simpson (b. 1960)

With an HPI of 43.38, Joe Simpson is the most famous Malaysian Mountaineer.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Joe Simpson (born 13 August 1960) is a British mountaineer, author, and motivational speaker. While climbing in Peru in 1985, he suffered severe injuries and was assumed dead by his climbing companion Simon Yates after falling into a crevasse, but he survived and managed to crawl back to his base camp. He described the ordeal in his 1988 book Touching the Void, which has been adapted into a 2003 documentary film and a 2018 stage play, both of the same name.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Malaysian mountaineers born between 1960 and 1960. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Malaysian mountaineers include Joe Simpson.

Living Malaysian Mountaineers

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