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Walhalla is the second oldest town in North Dakota, its history bound up in the fur trade of the Red River Valley. [7] One mile northeast of town was the North West Company fur trading post, established in 1797 by British-Canadian surveyor and cartographer David Thompson (1770–1857), and in 1801 moved to a site one mile east of Walhalla ...
The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5] The site attracts more than 30 million unique visitors per month and is among the top 40 trafficked websites in the world. [4]
Lou Whittaker, a legendary American mountaineer who helped lead ascents of Mount Everest, K2 and Denali, and who taught generations of climbers during his more than 250 trips up Mount Rainier, the ...
Lou Whittaker was born in Seattle, Washington, on February 10, 1929. [3] He and his twin brother Jim began climbing mountains at age 12. The Whittakers completed their first summit of Mount Rainier at age 16 and had climbed all of the major peaks in Washington by age 18.
David Finlay Breashears (December 20, 1955 – March 14, 2024) was an American mountaineer, filmmaker, author and motivational speaker. [1] In 1985, he reached the summit of Mount Everest a second time, becoming the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest more than once.
Charlotte Conant Fox (May 10, 1957 – May 24, 2018) was an American mountaineer and the first American woman to reach the summit of seven eight thousanders. She survived the 1996 Mount Everest disaster as a member of Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness expedition. She died of head injuries on May 24, 2018, after falling over a stairway railing at ...
Gerard McDonnell (20 January 1971 – 2 August 2008), mountaineer and engineer, was the first Irishman to reach the summit of K2, [1] the second-highest mountain on Earth, in August 2008. He died along with 10 other mountaineers following an avalanche on the descent, [ 2 ] in the deadliest accident in the history of K2 mountaineering .