Kathmandu (AFP) — Poland’s Andrzej Bargiel has become the first climber to ski down the world’s highest mountain without supplemental oxygen, his team and expedition organiser said Thursday.

Bargiel glided down Mount Everest’s snowy slopes after reaching the summit of the 8,849-metre (29,032-foot) mountain on Monday.

“I am on top of the highest mountain in the world and I’m going to descend it on skis,” Bargiel said in a video posted on Instagram early on Thursday.

Everest has seen a handful of ski descents but never a continuous downhill without additional oxygen.

In 2000, Slovenian Davorin Karnicar made the first full ski descent from Everest’s summit to base camp using bottled oxygen.

Chhang Dawa Sherpa of Seven Summit Treks, which organised the latest expedition, said Bargiel skie

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