Davorin "Davo" Karničar (October 26, 1962 – September 16, 2019)[1] was a Slovene alpinist and ski mountaineer.

[3] When Davo was 38 years old he became the first person to ski down from the summit of the highest mountain in the world, Mount Everest, on October 7, 2000.

[2] He was the first person to make a complete ski descent from the Seven Summits,[6][7] less than one month after the first person, Kit DesLauriers, skied from the top of all of the seven summits, but did not accomplish complete descents on Everest and Denali.

His Seven Summits descents were: The other significant peaks he skied from include the north-east face of Eiger and the east face of Matterhorn in Switzerland and Mont Blanc, the highest peak in Alps in the border between Italy and France.

In February 2001, he guided the first ski school for Nepalese children on the Khumbu Glacier in Nepal.