Vernon "Vern" Tejas is an American mountain climber and mountain guide.
19 Facts About Vernon Tejas
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Vernon Tejas is the current world record holder in the amount of time taken to summit all of the Seven Summits consecutively, having previously held the same record.
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Vernon Tejas was the first person to solo summit several of the world's tallest peaks.
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Vernon Tejas was born on 16 March 1953 at Portland, Oregon, the son of Phillip Sand Hansel and Janice Elaine Hansel.
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From Oregon, Vernon Tejas headed north and ended up in Alaska.
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Vernon Tejas went to work on The Alaska Pipeline and for Alaska Telecom, and enjoyed tower work where he built and maintained communication towers on North Slope in Alaska.
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Vernon Tejas is with Alpine Ascents International as a senior international high altitude alpine mountain guide.
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Vernon Tejas became a mountain guide and mountain rescuer operating in the Andes, Himalayas, the Alaska Range, and Antarctica during the 1980s.
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Vernon Tejas has paraglided from the summit of Mount Elbrus.
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In 1988, Vernon Tejas became the first person to successfully solo climb Denali during the winter season.
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Vernon Tejas had previously summited the peak several times as a mountain guide.
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Vernon Tejas has summited the northernmost peak in the world, Helvetia Tinde.
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In 1992, Vernon Tejas was part of the team that measured the exact height of Mount Everest, and was the team member that planted the prism pole at the top of the mountain so that lasers could be used to measure the exact altitude.
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In 1994, Tejas helped guide Norman D Vaughan up his namesake Antarctic mountain Mount Vaughan in the days leading up to Norman Vaughan's 89th birthday.
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In 2010, Vernon Tejas set the world record for the fastest period in which a person has climbed all seven of the world's highest mountain summits, at 134 days.
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Vernon Tejas is the only person to have summited all seven on at least ten separate occasions, and has climbed all seven twice within a year.
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Vernon Tejas had previously held the record in 2005 at 187 days.
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Vernon Tejas set a new speed record of the Seven Summits following the combined Kosciuszko and Carstensz lists of summits.
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Vernon Tejas began his record attempt with Vinson Massif on 18 January 2010 and after ascents on Aconcagua, Carstensz Pyramid, Kosciuszko, Kilimanjaro, Elbrus and Everest, reached the top of the last summit, Mt.