Vladas Vitkauskas

Quick Facts

Full Name	Vladas Vitkauskas
Occupation	Photographer
Date Of Birth	May 7, 1953(1953-05-07)
Age	71
Birthplace	Viduklė
Country	Lithuania
Birth City	Kaunas
Horoscope	Taurus

Vladas Vitkauskas Biography

Vladas Vitkauskas is one of the most popular and richest Photographer who was born on May 7, 1953 in Viduklė, Kaunas, Lithuania. Vladas Vitkauskas (born on May 7 1953, in Vidukle, Raseiniai district in Lithuania) was one of the first Lithuanian as well as the very first climber of within the Baltic states to scale the world’s highest peak, Mt. Everest (8,848 meters on May 10, 1993).

Vitkauskas is the first president and founder of the Lithuanian Mountaineering Association (1996-1999) as well as the chairperson and founder of the Everest Foundation, head of the Naturavita health center; a participant in the Lithuanian National Olympic Committee, advisor to the panel of magazine “Santara”.

He arranged a cultural research expedition to Chile and the Andes (in 2002, declared the International Ignacy Domeyko Year by UNESCO) in commemoration of the bicentenary anniversary of the birth of Ignacy Domeyko, a distinguished scientist of Lithuanian origin. He ascended the highest peak Donja Ines (5,075 m) in the Cordillera de Domeyko and Ojos del Salado (6,893 m), the highest volcano on the earth. He also organised the first Lithuanian expedition to the Karakoram, Himalaya and Hindu Kush mountain ranges in Pakistan. He was a member of the hot air balloon flight for the absolute altitude record (10,064 m, Nov. 27, 2006), the distance and duration records (Mar 3, 2007) in Lithuania.

Between 1993 to the year 1996, Vitkauskas between 1993 and 1996, he climbed between 1993 and 1996 the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on all continents. This includes Mt. Everest (Eurasia), Mt. McKinley (6,194 m, North America), Vinson Massif (4,897 m, Antarctica), Kilimanjaro (5,895 m, Africa), Mt. Kosciusko (2,228 meters, Australia), Aconcagua (6,959 meters, South America); Also Elbrus (5,642 meters, Caucasus) and Mont Blanc (4,807 meters, Alps) in Europe. It was his first person to fly the same national flag on all three which was in his case it was the Lithuanian flag. He planned his own trip to Himalaya and then climbed Mt. Everest by himself, after registering as a photographer for the Nepalese Women Everest Expedition. He also climbed on his own to the summits of Mt. McKinley and Aconcagua.

Vladas Vitkauskas Net Worth

Vladas Vitkauskas is one of the richest Photographer from Lithuania. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Vladas Vitkauskas 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Vitkauskas offers a variety of seminars and lectures, and organizes meetings with the general public. He also teaches business management classes for Lithuanian and foreign firms. He also organizes and organizes health, cultural and natural lifestyles activities. Vladas Vitkauskas received his degree from Kaunas Polytechnic Institute with a certificate of electronic engineering the year 1975. He is an active part of the Lithuanian Art Photography Union; the group held 54 photography exhibits and was a prize-winner in the international photography contest “World Wide Tour Photo ’99” and “Thoughts of the Live Earth” (2003). He was the creator of photography exhibits on display at the National Gallery (1998), the Lithuanian National Museum (2002) and at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris (2002) and videos documentaries.

Vitkauskas has also climbed some of the most awe-inspiring peaks of the former Soviet Union: Mt. Communism (7,495 m, which is now Ismoil Somoni) and Korzhenevskaya (7,105 m) in 1989. He also climbed Lenin (7,134 m which is now Avicenna) as well as Khan Tengri (6,995 m) in 1990. He was a participant and organized excursions to the mountains in the Caucasus, Tien Shan, Altay, Siberia, and Pamir as well as skiing excursions within Siberia, the Khibins (Kola peninsula) and Khibins (Kola Peninsula), Arctic Circle, and the Bering Strait.

He is the first mountain climber to be awarded (1997) the diploma of honour of the international Fair Play Committee for participating in the rescue of the body of Pasang Lhamu, the leader of the Nepalese Women Everest Expedition (1993) from Mt. Everest.

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Vladas Ranked on the list of most popular Photographer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Lithuania. Vladas Vitkauskas celebrates birthday on May 7 of every year.