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Makalu is the world's fifth-highest mountain at 8,481 meters (27,825 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur Himalayas 19 kilometers (12 mi) southeast of Mount Everest on the China–Nepal border. As of December 2024, there had been 800 successful summits of Makalu and 50 deaths on the mountain. [1]
Pages in category "Deaths on Annapurna" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B. Anatoli Boukreev; C.
everestnews.com "Alex Lowe Peak": A Mountain Honoring a Mountaineer [with photograph, localization and the climbing history of the peak] (retrieved March 27, 2010) Video Tribute to Alex Lowe; Beyond the Edge: National Geographic Adventure Blog: Alex Lowe’s Son Reflects on Finding Closure Posted by Max Lowe of Nat Geo Young Explorers on May 11 ...
Broad death rate: The first metric is the ratio of total deaths [c] on the mountain to successful climbers summiting over a given period. [30] The Guinness Book of World Records uses this metric to name Annapurna I as the deadliest eight-thousander, and the world's deadliest mountain with roughly one person dying for every three people who ...
The storms resulted in the deaths of at least 43 people. [ 1 ] [ 11 ] [ 12 ] [ 13 ] Among the dead were 21 trekkers from several countries walking the Annapurna Circuit , [ 14 ] including two Slovak climbers at Dhaulagiri base camp, [ 9 ] and several local Nepali mountain guides, cooks, and yak herders. [ 15 ]
Ueli Steck (Alemannic German: [ˈuεli ʃtɛk]; 4 October 1976 – 30 April 2017) was a Swiss rock climber and alpinist.He was the first to climb Annapurna solo via its South Face (though this is disputed by some [1]), and set speed records on the North Face trilogy in the Alps.
Jean-Christophe Lafaille (31 March 1965 – 27 January 2006 [presumed]) was a French climber noted for a number of difficult ascents in the Alps and Himalaya, and for what has been described as "perhaps the finest self-rescue ever performed in the Himalaya", [1] when he was forced to descend the mile-high south face of Annapurna alone with a broken arm, after his climbing partner had been ...
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