October 7, 2000: twenty-two years ago, Davo Karnicar made the first ski descent of Everest from the summit, on the Nepalese side. In 4 hours and 30 minutes, the Slovenian skier completed the first of the Seven summits ski descents which he then followed, before losing his life in a logging accident in 2019. He was 56 years old.
It is an extreme quest, and Davo Karnicar knew something about it, he who started by skiing Annapurna in 1995. At the time, this first brilliant success in the Himalayas, achieved with his brother, Andrej, had a bitter taste, the latter losing a few phalanges in the descent. Before that, he did his training in the Alps, with ski descents on the Eiger or the east face of the Matterhorn, which cannot be skied from the summit. In 1999, he attempted Everest without success. In September 2000, the members of