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Terry "Mugs" Stump (August 28, 1949 – May 21, 1992) was a noted American rock climber and mountaineer, active in establishing difficult first ascents in the Alaska Range and the Canadian Rockies. He died from falling into a crevasse while descending the South Buttress of Denali on May 21, 1992, while guiding clients Bob Hoffman and Nelson Max.
Based on a concept by climber John Long, the film follows Gabe (Stallone), a mountain climber who becomes embroiled in a heist of a U.S. Treasury plane flying through the Rocky Mountains. The film premiered at the 1993 Cannes Film Festival , and was released in the United States on May 28, 1993, by TriStar Pictures .
Nanga Parbat is the world's ninth highest mountain. It's known for being extremely hard to climb; named the "Killer Mountain" by the 1953 German expedition, first to successfully reach the peak. [204] [205] In addition to the large number of climbing deaths, 11 mountaineers were killed in 2013 by Taliban.
Emil Zsigmondy (1861–1885) Austria, physician and mountain climber; died trying to force new route on the Meije; Jerzy Żuławski (1874–1915) Polish literary figure, philosopher, translator and alpinist; Juliusz Żuławski (1910–1999) Polish poet, prose writer, literary critic, translator and climber; son of Jerzy Żuławski
Hundreds of climbers have died on Everest Members of the Irvine family reportedly offered to share DNA samples to confirm the identity of the remains. Irvine was 22 when he went missing.
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Co-written and directed by its star, Thomas Salvador, this atmospheric and suggestive outdoors drama follows a lonely man's attempt to conquer the French Alps.
The Eiger Sanction is a 1975 American action film directed by and starring Clint Eastwood.Based on the 1972 novel The Eiger Sanction by Trevanian, the film is about Jonathan Hemlock, an art history professor, mountain climber, and former assassin once employed by a secret government agency, who is blackmailed into returning to his deadly profession for one last mission.