Hristo Prodanov, Bulgarian engineer and mountaineer (born 1943)

Hristo Prodanov

Bulgarian mountaineer

Hristo Ivanov Prodanov also known as Christo Prodanov was a Bulgarian mountaineer. Prodanov was the first Bulgarian to climb Mount Everest, doing it via the most difficult way—the West Ridge—as well as alone and without oxygen. Prodanov was the first person to climb Everest in…