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Marco Siffredi (22 May 1979 – 8 September 2002) was a French snowboarder and mountaineer. Siffredi was the first to descend Mount Everest on a snowboard, completing this feat in 2001 via the Norton Couloir .
Snowboard descent was interrupted, complete only from 8848m-8630m and 7600m-6500m due to lack of snow, and had to stop before ABC, thus crediting first complete descent to Siffredi the day after. [9] No 30 Kit DesLauriers: United States: 2006: 8848: S. col: 1st woman to ski off summit (making her also the first woman to ski from the Seven ...
Siffredi is an Italian surname. Notable people with the surname include: Marco Siffredi (1979–2002), French snowboarder and mountaineer; Rocco Siffredi (born 1964), Italian pornographic actor, director, and producer
Points of interest on the north face of Mount Everest, Hornbein Couloir in dark blue. The Hornbein Couloir is a narrow and steep couloir high to the west on the north face of Mount Everest in Tibet, that extends from about 8,000 to 8,500 m (26,200 to 27,900 ft) elevation, 350 metres (1,150 feet) below the summit.
The Norton Couloir was the scene of one of the greatest mountaineering achievements when, in 1980, Reinhold Messner entered this gully to avoid what, for a solo climber, was a dangerous ridge - especially its crux, the "Second Step" - and ascended to the summit, alone and without using supplemental oxygen.
Rocco Antonio Tano (born 4 May 1964), known professionally as Rocco Siffredi, is an Italian pornographic actor, director, and producer. [3] [4] Known as the "Italian Stallion", Siffredi has starred in more than 1,300 pornographic films since 1986.
Ten years later, Marco Siffredi made the second-ever descent of Nant Blanc, and the first descent on a snowboard. [3] The North Face would not be descended via this route again until 2018 when Paul Bonhomme and Vivian Bruchez successfully descended on skis. [4]
This is a list of skiing deaths of notable people, in chronological order, and includes skiers and snowboarders both professional and recreational whose deaths are due to accidents or avalanches.