| Atte Miettinen | |
| Birth Date: | 19 November 1975 |
| Known For: | Summited the Seven summits, summitted Everest |
| Occupation: | Business executive, mountaineer |
Atte Saku Juhani Miettinen (born November 19, 1975) is a Finnish business executive and mountaineer living in Dubai.[1]
Miettinen was the first Finn to achieve the so-called Seven summits on June 22, 2012. He has climbed both the Bass and Messner lists, which only 100 mountaineers in the world had been able to do at the time. Richard Bass and Reinhold Messner’s lists differ for the highest peaks in Oceania.
During his Seven Peaks project, Miettinen reached the top of the Vinson Massif in Antarctica as the second Finn ever. The first Finnish conqueror of the mountain was Veikka Gustafsson. Miettinen was the first Finn to climb the Carstensz Pyramid on the island of New Guinea in Indonesia.
| Atte Miettinen — Seven summits | |||||||||
| width=120 style=background:#BED9F6 | Date | width=220 style=background:#BED9F6 | Mountain | width=120 style=background:#BED9F6 | Height | width=120 style=background:#BED9F6 | Continent | width=120 style=background:#BED9F6 | References |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 2007 | 5 895 metres | ||||||||
| July 2009 | 5 642 metres | ||||||||
| April 2010 | 2 228 metres | ||||||||
| May 2011 | 4 884 metres | Oceania | |||||||
| November 2011 | 4 892 metres | Antarctica | [2] | ||||||
| December 2011 | 6 961 metres | [3] | |||||||
| May 2012 | 8 848,86 metres | [4] | |||||||
| June 2012 | 6 190 metres | [5] |
Miettinen’s younger brother is the Finnish musician Karri ”Paleface” Miettinen.