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A U.S. climber has died on his way to scale Mount Everest on Monday, according to an expedition organizer.

Jonathan Sugarman died at Camp 2 after he began to feel unwell.  His death was confirmed by the U.S. embassy.

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Tom Hornbein (Wiki), American mountaineer dead at 93

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An Australian climber has died on Mount Everest, according to his expedition organiser and local media.

The Himalayan Times reports that Jason Bernard Kennison died while returning from the summit on Friday.

The 40-year-old mechanic was part of an expedition run by Asian Trekking, whose managing director, Dawa Steven Sherpa, told the paper that Kennison had started showing abnormal behaviour from the south summit.

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On 24/02/2023 at 10:16, Ulitzer95 said:

American mountaineer and rock climber Allen Steck (wiki) dead at 96/97 according to this Facebook post.

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(photo from his 90th birthday)

Gurdial Singh (wiki), 99, and Gwen Moffat (wiki), 98, still at peak positions as the oldest mountaineers.


Gurdial Singh (wiki) reportedly died this morning aged 99:
 

 

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Luis Stritzinger died aged 54, the German mountaineer born in Füssen died in Kangchendzönga, he disappeared on May 25, 2023, after wanting to ski as far as possible from Kangchenjunga in the Himalayas without being accompanied. On May 30, 2023, his body was found at an altitude of 8,400 meters.

https://www.faz.net/aktuell/gesellschaft/luis-stitzinger-ist-tot-deutscher-bergsteiger-im-himalaja-umgekommen-18928226.html

Stitzinger escalou vários oito mil.

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A 26-year-old Boulder, Colorado, woman died after falling 500 feet while climbing a ridge at the Rocky Mountain National Park, park officials said Monday.

The woman was doing a free-solo climb at the site on Ypsilon Mountain when she fell.

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Subject of The Man Who Skied Down Everest (1975), major Japanese mountaineer and skier Yūichirō Miura (91) is an impressive guy. He has had kidney disease and diabetes for decades, had four heart operations (and cardiac arrest) and a long pelvis surgery following a severe fall in his 70s. After all this, he became the oldest person to climb Mt. Everest in 2013, at 80.

 

In June 2020 he had a spontaneous spinal epidural hematoma and was hospitalised for eight months...but, that didn't stop him from summiting Mt. Fuji half-paralyzed in a wheelchair in August. Will he "climb" again?

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Boris Stepanovich Korshunov, the world's only 9-time holder of the title "Snow Leopard", which was awarded to climbers who had conquered five seven-thousand-meter mountains on the Tien Shan and Pamir, passed away at the age of 88.

 

He fulfilled the standard of "Conqueror of the Highest Mountains" for the 9th time at the age of 69, and at the age of almost 80 he climbed Elbrus for the 83rd time.

 

alpfederation.ru ru.wiki
 

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Lev Sarkisov died at the age of 85, he was an Armenian climber known for being the oldest Armenian and the first Armenian to climb Mount Everest, the title “Snow Leopard”. This is the name given to climbers who climbed the five highest peaks of the Soviet Union - Communism Peak (7,495 m), Victory Peak (7,439 m), Lenin Peak (7,134 m), Korzhenevskaya Peak (7,105 m), Khan Tengri (7010m). He climbed Mount Ushba several times along ice-covered routes.

https://newsarmenia.am/news/armenia/skonchalsya-legendarnyy-alpinist-lev-sarkisov-pervyy-armyanin-podnyavshiysya-na-everest-emu-bylo-85-/?ysclid=ls4yrbxf8v626992634

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Evgeny Glazunov (1987-2024, 36), a Russian mountaineer from Irkutsk, sportsman and coach, master of sports, champion of Russia in 2013 and 2016, holder of the badge "Rescue in the Mountains" , died while climbing Mount Aksu (5355 m) in Kyrgyzstan. According to rescuers, the probable cause of death was a rockfall.

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His younger brother Sergey Glazunov (1992-2018, 26) master of sports, champion of Russia in 2016, mountaineering instructor, holder of the badge "Rescue in the mountains", photographer, died while climbing the mountain peak "Latok-1" (7145 m) in Pakistan. The body was left in the mountains.

ircity.ru tass.ru rgo.ru fontanka.ru

 

Spoiler

Vladimir Vysotsky song "Top" from the film "Vertical" (1967)

 

Здесь вам не равнина, здесь климат иной,

Идут лавины одна за одной,

И здесь за камнепадом ревет камнепад.

И можно свернуть, обрыв обогнуть,

Но мы выбираем трудный путь,

Опасный, как военная тропа.

И можно свернуть, обрыв обогнуть,

Но мы выбираем трудный путь,

Опасный, как военная тропа.

 

Кто здесь не бывал, кто не рисковал,

Тот сам себя не испытал,

Пусть даже внизу он звезды хватал с небес.

Внизу не встретишь, как не тянись,

За всю свою счастливую жизнь,

Десятой доли таких красот и чудес.

Внизу не встретишь, как не тянись,

За всю свою счастливую жизнь,

Десятой доли таких красот и чудес.

 

Нет алых роз и траурных лент,

И не похож на монумент,

Тот камень, что покой тебе подарил.

Как Вечным огнем, сверкает днем

Вершина изумрудным льдом,

Которую ты так и не покорил.

Как Вечным огнем, сверкает днем

Вершина изумрудным льдом,

Которую ты так и не покорил.

 

 

 

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Report of the death of Major Michael Lane aka Bronco Lane

A former SAS officer, he summitted Everest in 1976 and a couple of mountaineering books to his name. The story of the loss of his digits is not for the time you are eating.

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19 minutes ago, YoungWillz said:

Report of the death of Major Michael Lane aka Bronco Lane

A former SAS officer, he summitted Everest in 1976 and a couple of mountaineering books to his name. The story of the loss of his digits is not for the time you are eating.


A hero of mine.
 

So much so that I’d like everyone on here to enjoy a picture I recently took of Lane’s amputed toes which he lost to frostbite on Everest (along with a thumb and a few fingers!)… :D 

 

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On 23/03/2024 at 19:44, YoungWillz said:

Report of the death of Major Michael Lane aka Bronco Lane

A former SAS officer, he summitted Everest in 1976 and a couple of mountaineering books to his name. The story of the loss of his digits is not for the time you are eating.

Bronco Lane news report @Ulitzer95https://www.herefordtimes.com/news/24210908.bronco-lane-former-sas-soldier-mountaineer-died/

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