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A woman died Saturday after falling while climbing near the summit of Capitol Peak in Colorado, the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office said. The hiker, a Denver resident, was not publicly identified.
Torn is a 2021 American documentary film by photographer and explorer Max Lowe, son of the late climber Alex Lowe, who explored his father's high-profile mountain climbing death on the Himalayan peak, Mount Shishapangma, in 1999. His body was discovered in 2016, 17 years after his death. [1]
The Alpinist is a 2021 American documentary film directed by Peter Mortimer and Nick Rosen about Marc-André Leclerc, a free-spirited and little-known 23-year-old Canadian rock climber, ice climber, and alpinist.
Marc-André Leclerc (October 10, 1992 – March 5, 2018) was a Canadian rock climber, ice and mixed climber, and alpinist. He is known for his solo ascents–often in winter–of major ice and alpine climbing routes. In 2016, he completed the first winter solo ascents of both Torre Egger in Patagonia and of the Emperor Face of Mount Robson in ...
A top Slovak mountaineer died on a descent of the 7,234-meter Langtang Lirung peak in Nepal after an historic ascent up its east face, Slovakia's climbers association said on Sunday.
John Long (born 1953) US, rock climber and writer; author of How to Rock Climb series; Erhard Loretan (1959–2011) Switzerland, 14 8,000m-plus summits (1982–1995) Alex Lowe (1958–1999) US, climbed Great Trango Tower, Rakekniven in Antarctica and Sail Peak on Baffin Island; died on Shishapangma
Aron Ralston was born on October 27, 1975, in Marion, Ohio. [1] He and his family moved to Denver in the 1980s when he was 12, where he attended Cherry Creek High School and learned to ski and backpack.
Professional alpine climber Michael Gardner has died at age 32 following a fall. Gardner and his longtime climbing partner, Sam Hennessey, were trekking up the Jannu East Mountain in Nepal on ...