Andrej Štremfelj, his wife Marija, Viki Grošelj, Davo Karničar, Tadej Golob, Matej Flis, Gregor Lačen and Tomaž Jakofčič received special diamond medals as part of one of the diamong jubilee celebrations organised.

Štremfelj is the only Slovenian so far to have climbed Everest twice. His ascent on 13 May 1979 together with Nejc Zaplotnik was the first Slovenian ascent, while on 7 October 1990 he and his wife also became the first married couple in the world to make it to the top of Everest.

Krničar will meanwhile go down as the first man to have skied down the 8,850m-mountain in one go. He accomplished this feat on 7 October 2000.

As part of the ceremony in Ljubljana, Nepal's Honorary Consul General in Slovenia Aswin K. Shrestha and the former president of th Nepal Mountaineering Association Ang Tshering Sherpa highlighted the significance of the help provided by the Slovenian Mountaineering Association to Nepal and its people, and the ties between the two associations.

Singled out as the most important contribution was the Slovenian mountaineering school in Manang, which became in 1979 the first ever school for mountain guides in Nepal.

The New Zealander Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay, a Nepali sherpa climber, became on 29 May 1953 the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest.