A Spanish climber set a new record for climbing Mount Everest, after reaching the top of the world's highest mountain in just 26 hours. He was Kilian Jornet. He did so without the help of fixed ropes or bottled oxygen. In running to the mountain summit, Jornet scaled Mount Everest in just about 26 hours, which is the fastest known mountain ascent in the world.

We believe Kilian established a new fastest known time for the route (from) Everest Base Camp, Laura Front from Jornet's press team told Agence France-Presse (AFP), an international news agency from Paris, France. She said, “He climbed Everest without the use of O2 (or) fixed ropes and in one single push in 26 hours.”

Jornet specifically scaled Everest’s north face, starting from the base camp on the Tibet side of the mountain. He reached the summit alone early on a Monday. Several days later on May 27, he reached the summit again from an advanced base camp. It took him 17 hours; it was about 15-20 minutes slower than the records from this camp set by Hans Kammerlander and Christian Stangl in 1996 and 2006, respectively.

In September 2016, Jornet made his first attempt to climb Everest. In May 2017, he was able to tick off the last item on his list of historic mountains to climb (the solo ascent of Everest) without oxygen and in a single climb. This achievement marked the climax of his "Summits of My Life" project which took him to some of the world’s most famous peaks in just over a five year period.

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