. Medals for feats of alpinism were initially floated as part of the first
Olympic Congress in 1894, where it was suggested by the committee tasked with drawing up a list of sports. but bore the inscription of the
1924 Summer Olympics in Paris. 21 people: the
thirteen British expedition members, seven
Sherpas who died during the ascent and one Nepalese soldier (
Tejbir Bura) were awarded medals. There is some doubt as to whether all awardees, or the Sherpas' families, received them. Toni died on May 16, 1932 while attempting to climb the
Wiesbachhorn, but Franz and his father accepted medals on behalf of both brothers in a ceremony on September 5, 1932. In 1988, the
Olympic Order was presented to
Reinhold Messner and
Jerzy Kukuczka, the first two people to climb all fourteen
eight-thousanders. Messner declined the award, citing mountaineering as a creative activity and not a competition, while Kukuczka accepted it, though simultaneously distinguished it from a real Olympic medal. ==Medal table==