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1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster; 1936 Eiger climbing disaster; 1967 Mount McKinley disaster; 1970 Mount Everest disaster; 1971 Cairngorm Plateau disaster; 1974 French Mount Everest expedition; 1986 K2 disaster; 1986 Mount Hood disaster; 1995 K2 disaster; 1996 Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition to Mount Everest; 1996 Mount Everest ...
This is a category for people who were killed while mountaineering Subcategories ... List of mountaineering disasters in North America by death toll * 1967 Mount ...
As of 2007, about 10,000 people attempt to climb the mountain each year. [1] As of May 2002, more than 130 people are known to have died climbing Mount Hood since records have been kept. [2] One of the worst climbing accidents occurred in 1986, when seven high school students and two teachers froze to death while attempting to retreat from a ...
Fall while climbing ravine Tuckerman Ravine: Washington [5] John Fox: May 15, 1982: 47 Vermont: Stroke Tuckerman Ravine: Washington [9] [5] Edward Aalbue: January 1, 1983: 21 New York: Fall Huntington Ravine: Washington [9] [5] Kenneth Hokenson: March 24, 1983: 23 New York: Fall Raymond Cataract Washington [12] [5] Mark Brockman: March 27, 1983 ...
The 1967 Mount McKinley disaster occurred in July 1967 when seven climbers died on Denali (then still officially known as Mount McKinley) while attempting to descend from the summit in a severe blizzard estimated to be the worst to occur on the mountain in 100 years. [1]
New Zealand Police say they don't believe two Americans and a Canadian who have been missing for five days survived a fall on New Zealand's tallest peak. The three men -- 56-year-old Kurt Blair ...
See also Dr. Beck Weathers, a medical doctor who is famous for narrowly surviving the 1996 Everest Disaster. [11] Dr. A. M. Kellas (1921, en route to Everest as part of expedition) [3] [12] Dr. Karl G. Henize (1993), PhD in Astronomy and U.S. Astronaut [13] Dr. Sándor Gárdos (2001), Hungarian team doctor, specialist of high altitude medicine [14]
The students were participating in Basecamp, a program run by the school following the principles of Outward Bound, and required for all tenth graders.Led by Thomas Goman, the school's chaplain, the expedition set off from Timberline Lodge, just west of the route up Mount Hood, on Monday May 12, 1986, at 2:30 a.m.