Draft:Laval St. Germain

Captain Laval St. Germain (born October 18, 1968) is a Canadian adventurer, mountain climber, endurance athlete, public speaker and Boeing 737 pilot. He is a member of the Explorers Club, a Royal Canadian Geographical Society fellow and the first Canadian to summit Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen. He has climbed the highest peak on all seven continents, along with the highest point of over 30 countries, and is the only person to have climbed and skied down Iraq's highest peak, Cheekha Dar. In 2016, St. Germain also rowed more than 5000km solo across the North Atlantic Ocean from Halifax, Canada to Brest, France and is a keynote speaker with the Speakers Bureau of Canada.

St. Germain lives in Calgary, Alberta with his wife, Janet. St. Germain and his two kids, Andréa and Richard, who were 11 and 13 years old at the time, hold the record for the youngest cyclists to have completed the ride between Dawson City,Yukon and Inuvik, Northwest Territories on the remote Dempster Highway.

Mount Everest
In 2010, St. Germain became the first Canadian to summit Mount Everest without the use of supplemental oxygen. He climbed the Tibetan side, losing three fingers due to frostbite. St. Germain was inspired by Italian climber Reinhold Messner.

The Seven Summits
Between 1993 and 2019, St. Germain summited all of the Seven Summits (the Messner version).


 * Aconcagua (1993)
 * Mount Kilimanjaro (1994)
 * Denali (Mount McKinley) (1996)
 * Mount Elbrus (1997)
 * Mount Everest (2010)
 * Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid) (2012)
 * Vinson Massif (2019)

Solo Row from Halifax to France
In 2016, St. Germain broke a world record, rowing over 5000km across the North Atlantic Ocean from Halifax, Canada to Brest, France in 53 days. St. Germain called the 5,000-kilometre solo journey the Confront Cancer Ocean Row after a close friend was diagnosed with lung cancer. The record-breaking trip raised $60,000 for the Alberta Cancer Foundation.