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Nikki Bart is an Australian intensive care specialist and mountain climber. She and her mother, Cheryl Bart, were the first mother-daughter team to summit Mount Everest and complete the Seven Summits.
Biography
Bart was raised in the Eastern Suburbs of Sydney and attended Moriah College. She went on to complete a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery with honours at the University of New South Wales (UNSW).
Nikki Bart and her mother Cheryl Bart completed the Seven Summits challenge—climbing the highest mountains on each continent—over eight years. From 2001 to 2008, mother and daughter successfully climbed Mount Elbrus (Russia), Mount McKinley (United States), Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania), Aconcagua (Argentina), Vinson Massif (Antarctica), and Mount Kosciuszko (Australia). In May 2008, when they reached the summit of Mount Everest (Nepal), they became the first mother-daughter duo to have done so. Their Everest ascent also marked their completion of the Seven Summits, also making them the first mother and daughter to have completed the challenge. At the time, Nikki was in her sixth and final year of studying medicine. In 2008, Nikki and Cheryl Bart were jointly awarded the Australian Geographic Spirit of Adventure Award.
In 2011, Bart skied to the North Pole and has plans to ski to the South Pole to complete the Explorers Grand Slam challenge.
Bart currently works as a medical registrar at St Vincent's Hospital and is a conjoint associate lecturer at UNSW. Bart is the recipient of a 2010 John Monash Scholarship and is using her scholarship to complete research on hypoxia at Oxford University while working at John Radcliffe Hospital. In 2013, she received an Avant scholarship which allowed her to continue her research in Australia.