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List of deaths on Makalu Date Name Nationality Cause of death References 14 May 2024 Johnny Saliba France: Altitude sickness [88] 7 May 2024 Lakpa Tenji Sherpa Nepal: Exhaustion [89] [90] 24 October 2021 Henrik T. Adersen Denmark: Unknown (died near Base Camp; likely a trekker as no climbing permits were issued in autumn 2021) [91] 24 May 2019
The 2014 Nepal snowstorm disaster occurred in central Nepal on 14 October 2014 and resulted in the deaths of at least 43 people of various nationalities, including at least 21 trekkers. Injuries and fatalities resulted from unusually severe snowstorms and avalanches on and around the mountains of Annapurna and Dhaulagiri . [ 2 ]
Character killed off, death implied on screen in following episodes. Josh Ryan Evans: Timmy Lenox: Passions: 302 2002-08-05 Complications of heart surgery 4 Character was killed off in the episode that aired the day of his death. The character was originally planned to be brought back as an angel in later episodes, but had to be written out ...
Vera Watson (1932 – October 17, 1978) was an American computer programmer, mountaineer and rock climber who made the first woman's solo climb of Acongagua, [1] the highest mountain in the Americas.
This is a list of ski descents of eight-thousanders (which are the 14 highest peaks in the world that are over 8,000 meters (26,000 feet) in elevation). [1] Such feats are part of the sport of ski mountaineering, and also related to the sport of extreme skiing. The first descents can be traced to the 1970s.
Nadav Ben Yehuda (Hebrew: נדב בן יהודה, born February 29, 1988) is an Israeli mountain climber, search and rescue professional, photographer and speaker.He is the first Israeli to climb Mount Annapurna 1, and the Israeli who climbed the most mountains of above 8,000 meters.
Fischer was the son of Shirley and Gene Fischer and was of German, Dutch, and Hungarian ancestry. He spent his early life in Michigan and New Jersey. [3] After watching a TV documentary in 1970 in his home in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, New Jersey, about the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) with his father, he headed to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming for the ...
Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (Russian: Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a Soviet and Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m (26,247 ft)—without supplemental oxygen.