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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 ... List of mountaineering disasters in North America by death toll * 1967 Mount McKinley disaster; A. Philip ...
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 ...
[4] [7] Wilcox, in his book White Winds: America's Most Tragic Climb, published in 1981, concluded, based on lowland weather data collected, that the weather the seven climbers still on the high slopes on Denali faced may have been the worst conditions experienced by any mountaineers on record. [6]
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.
The 1996 Mount Everest disaster occurred on 10–11 May 1996 when eight climbers caught in a blizzard died on Mount Everest while attempting to descend from the summit. Over the entire season, 12 people died trying to reach the summit, making it the deadliest season on Mount Everest at the time and the third deadliest to date after the 23 fatalities resulting from avalanches caused by the ...
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This list of United States disasters by death toll includes disasters that occurred either in the United States, at diplomatic missions of the United States, or incidents outside of the United States in which a number of U.S. citizens were killed. Domestic deaths due to war in America are included except the American Civil War.