Göran Kropp (December 11, 1966 – September 30, 2002) was a Swedish adventurer and mountaineer, born in Eskilstuna in south Sweden. He is most famous for his May 23, 1996 solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support, travelling only by bicycle from Sweden and back.

In 1972, at the age of 6, Kropp's father took him up Galdhøpiggen, the highest peak in Norway and Scandinavia.

In 1988 Kropp traveled to climb his first major peak, Pik Lenina, 7134 meters high, located in Tajikistan / Kyrgyzstan. Kropp and his companions ascended the top in a record time of 10 days. In 1989 Kropp had hopes that he would climb Cho Oyu, but he had no permit. Instead, he went to South America and climbed Iliniza Sur (5266 m), Cotopaxi (5897 m), Illimani (6300 m), Huayna Potosi (6095 m) and Illampu (6520 m). In a 1990 Swedish expedition, he and sv:Rafael Jensen climbed Muztagh Tower (7273 m) in Pakistan. The mountain is one of the more difficult 7000-meter mountains in the Himalayas and their ascent was the fourth of the mountain.

Renata Chlumska, born December 9, 1973 in Malmö, Sweden, is an adventurer and mountain climber. She is mainly Swedish, but also has Czech citizenship from her parents.

In 1999, she became the first Swedish woman to climb Mount Everest. During 2005 and 2006 she performed a challenge called "Around America Adventure". She went around the USA (lower 48 states). She paddled a kayak from Seattle to San Diego, bicycled with the kayak on a carriage from San Diego to Brownsville, Texas, continued kayaking around Florida to Eastport, Maine, and then bicycled back to Seattle.

She was engaged to Göran Kropp when he died in a climbing accident.

Fredrik Sträng, (born March 25, 1977) is a Swedish mountain climber, adventurer and documentary film maker.

Sträng was born in Laxå in Örebro County and learned to climb in the Kilsbergen mountains. He currently lives in Solna.

In 2003 Fredrik Sträng participated in the Swedish Dhaulagiri expedition which consisted of six Swedes altogether (Joakim Ahlin, Magnus Flock, Martin Emanuelsson, Fredrik Jönsson and Fredrik Sträng). Sträng reached the summit, together with Kami Sherpa, who was also part of the expedition.

In 2005, in a commercial expedition led by Ryan Waters, with 6 climbers and 6 high-altitude porters, Fredrik Sträng attempted to climb the north wall of Mount Everest via the northeast ridge. He turned back only 240 m from the summit because the oxygen did not work and because of an outbreak of a throat infection. Sträng reasoned that reaching the summit was not worth risking freezing some of his fingers. It has been asserted by other mountaineers that turning back – with the reason given in this case – constitutes a greater achievement than reaching the summit and suffering exposure. All porters and two clients summited, including a Swede Magnus Flock. Sträng and Flock also participated in a medical experiment conducted by Uppsala University Hospital under the supervision of researcher Stefan Branth and medical student Fredrik Wallin. The purpose was to investigate how the body is affected by hypoxia. The study found among other results that the two lost basically no fat; that at high altitudes almost all metabolism was fuelled by muscle tissue.

Göran Tunström (14 May 1937, Borgvik, Grums Municipality – February 5, 2000, Stockholm) was a Swedish author. He grew up in Sunne, Värmland County. Tunström's style is personal and intimate, and has a clear autobiographical tone. Although active as an established author for nearly four decades, it was particularly after his The Christmas Oratorio was adapted as a movie in 1996 that he became widely known to the (Swedish) public.

Sunne, the author's home town, plays an important role in his works. Swedish as well as international celebrities appear in the town and take part in the story.The cover paintings of his first two books about Sunne (De heliga geograferna and Guddöttrarna) are made by the painter Tage Åsén from the same town.

In the late 1950s, he lived on the Greek island of Hydra and became friends with Leonard Cohen and the Norwegian author Axel Jensen.

He participated in the Oslo International Poetry Festival, OIPF.

He was married to artist Lena Cronqvist, and was the father of film director Linus Tunström.