Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Six of the fourteen summits of the Eight-Thousanders (Manaslu, Shishapangma, Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Mt. Everest and Makalu). The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains that rise more than 8,000 metres (26,247 ft) above sea level. They are all in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges. This is a list of mountaineers who have died on these mountains.
Pages in category "Deaths on Lhotse" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. J. Nicolas Jaeger; K.
An early attempt on Lhotse was made by the 1955 International Himalayan Expedition, headed by Norman Dyhrenfurth.It also included two Austrians (cartographers Erwin Schneider and Ernst Senn) and two Swiss (Bruno Spirig and Arthur Spöhel), and was the first expedition in the Everest area to include Americans (Fred Beckey, George Bell, and Richard McGowan).
On 27 April 1980, Nicolas Jaeger was seen for the last time at 8,200 metres (26,900 ft) altitude on Lhotse Shar, and is presumed dead. Jaeger was attempting a traverse from the Shar to Lhotse Main. [2] 27 September 1987 saw the single deadliest day on Lhotse Shar, as four Spanish climbers fell 1,500 meters to their deaths in an avalanche.
Samuli Mansikka (28 July 1978 – 24 March 2015), was a Finnish Mountaineer and expedition leader. He was president of the Finnish Alpine Club and a member of The Explorers Club . [ 1 ] He was best known for climbing the world's 8000m peaks , many of them solo and without supplementary oxygen.
Fritz Luchsinger in 1956. Fritz Luchsinger (8 March 1921 – 28 April 1983) was a Swiss mountaineer. Together with Ernst Reiss, he made the first ascent of Lhotse (8,516 m), the 4th highest mountain in the world, on 18 May 1956. [1]
Maciej Berbeka (17 October 1954 – 6 March 2013) was a Polish mountaineer and mountain guide. [1]Berbeka made the first-ever winter ascent of three eight-thousanders: Manaslu, on 12 January 1984 with Ryszard Gajewski, and Cho Oyu, on 12 February 1985 with Maciej Pawlikowski (the only winter ascent on an eight-thousander made along a new route), and Broad Peak on 5 March 2013 with Adam ...
Kukuczka on a mural in Katowice Street art of Kukuczka in Bogucice, the district of Katowice where he grew up and lived, unveiled in 2019. [1]Józef Jerzy Kukuczka (Polish: [ˈju.zɛf ˈjɛ.ʐɨ kuˈkut͡ʂ.ka]; 24 March 1948 – 24 October 1989) was a Polish mountaineer who is widely regarded one of the greatest high-altitude climbers in history.