Jaime Viñals Massanet (born November 17, 1966) is a Guatemalan mountaineer, the first person from Central America and Caribbean region ever to climb the Earth's highest peak, Mount Everest, after reaching the summit together with the American Andy Lakpass and the Danish Asmus Noreslet on an expedition from New Zealand organized by Russell Brice, Since then, he became one of the few people to have reached the Seven Summits - the highest mountains of each of the seven (sub-)continents.
Seven Volcanic Summits of the World is to reach the top of the highest volcano of the seven continents of the planet, these are: Ojos del Salado (South America); Pico de Orizaba (North America); Kilimanjaro (Africa); Elbrus (Europe); Damavand (Asia); Giluwe (Oceania) and Sidley (Antarctica).
On January 18, 2023, he reached the summit of the Sidley volcano in Antarctica together with Celine Jaccard (Switzerland);Nilavishek Mukherjee (India);Caroline Leon (Australia);Marie-Pier Desharnais (Canada);Adrian Ahritculesei (Romania);Vambola Sipelgas (Estonia);Thierry Dewambrechies (France);Robert Gropel (Australia) & Eli Potter (Alaska).
All can be purchased in digital format (eBook) on his website: https://www.jaimevinals.shop and https://www.jaimevinals.com sites where there is extensive information about the life of Jaime Viñals, his achievements and his upcoming challenges, as well as such as motivational, coaching and leadership messages.
Born in Guatemala City, Viñals studied biology at the Universidad de San Carlos.
After having passed the 8,000 meters mark, the expedition was unsuccessful at reaching the summit due to the inclement weather, and had to return.
Viñals became the third Latin American person to climb to the peak of Everest and to complete the ascent to the Seven Summits, and the first from Central America or the Caribbean to achieve such feats.
[1][3] In 2002, Viñals embarked on an attempt to climb the highest peak of each of the seven largest islands in the world.
[citation needed] In 1995, Viñals was awarded the Orden del Quetzal from Guatemalan President Ramiro de León Carpio.