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  2. Category:Mountaineering disasters - Wikipedia

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    0–9. 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster; 1936 Eiger climbing disaster; 1967 Mount McKinley disaster; 1970 Mount Everest disaster; 1971 Cairngorm Plateau disaster

  3. 1967 Mount McKinley disaster - Wikipedia

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    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]

  4. Cairngorm Plateau disaster - Wikipedia

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    View south from near the scene of the 1971 disaster (this photograph was taken in winter 1992) The Cairngorm Plateau disaster, also known as the Feith Buidhe disaster, occurred in November 1971 when six fifteen-year-old Edinburgh school students and their two leaders were on a two-day navigational expedition in a remote area of the Cairngorms in the Scottish Highlands.

  5. 1936 Eiger climbing disaster - Wikipedia

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    After a deadly and unsuccessful German attempt [1] in 1935, ten climbers from Austria and Germany travelled to the still-unclimbed north face of the Eiger in 1936, but, before serious summit attempts could get underway, one climber was killed during a training climb.

  6. 1996 Mount Everest disaster - Wikipedia

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    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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  8. 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster - Wikipedia

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    The 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster resulted in the loss of 10 lives on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-highest mountain [1] and one of the 14 eight-thousanders. [2] The disaster, which happened during the 1934 climbing season, included nine climbers who died in what was, at the time, the single deadliest mountaineering accident in history.

  9. Dachstein hiking disaster - Wikipedia

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    On April 15, 1954, during the Easter holiday, a group of ten students and three teachers led by 40-year-old Hans Seiler, a teacher described as having past mountaineering experience, set off on a hiking trip to Hoher Dachstein. Although the weather was "typical of an Austrian spring", there had been forecasted reports of snow and fog.