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unusual facts about mountain climber



Simon Binks

Mountain climber, Lincoln Hall, quotes lyrics from Binks' song in his book, White Limbo: The first Australian climb of Mt Everest (1985).

Sophia Danenberg

Sophia Danenberg (born 1972) is an American mountain climber best known as the first African American and the first black woman to climb to the summit of Mount Everest, the world's tallest mountain.


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All in the Timing

Variations on the Death of Trotsky: In comic fashion, revolutionary Leon Trotsky dies over and over again from a mountain-climber's axe-wound received many hours prior.

Arved Fuchs

On December 30, 1989, he and the famous mountain climber Reinhold Messner were the first to reach the South Pole without animal or motorised help, on skis, and with wind-assistance (parasail).

Bolton Brown

Brown was an accomplished mountain climber and benefited from Stanford’s proximity to the Sierra Nevada range, mostly famously explored by Sierra Club founder John Muir (1838–1914).

Frederick Keel

In 1902 Keel married Dora Compton, the second daughter of the English-born German landscape painter and mountain climber, Edward Theodore Compton.

Lee Sung-jae

In 2004 Lee portrayed a mountain climber in the big-budget adventure/melodrama Ice Rain, which was shot in the Canadian Rockies, then played a ballroom dancer in Dance with the Wind, Park Jeong-woo's directorial debut (Park wrote the screenplay for many of Kim Sang-jin's films).

Mount Andrus

Carl H. Andrus is himself an avid mountain climber, having summited all 46 of the Adirondack high peaks and having, in his youth, climbed the Matterhorn.

Osprey Packs

The world's first blind mountain climber to summit Mount Everest, Erik Weihenmayer, used an Osprey backpack, the Aether 60, and is pictured with it on the cover of Time Magazine's June 18th, 2001 issue.

Squinobal

Oreste Squinobal (b. 1943), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer

Arturo Squinobal (b. 1944), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer

Lorenzo "Renzo" Squinobal (b. 1951), Italian mountain climber, mountain guide and ski mountaineer

Swami Sundaranand

Nicknamed "the Sadhu Who Clicks" because of his photography, he is a noted mountain climber having scaled over 25 Himalayan peaks, climbing twice with Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.

The Dark Glow of the Mountains

It is about an expedition made by freestyle mountain climber Reinhold Messner and his partner Hans Kammerlander to climb Gasherbrum II and Gasherbrum I all in one trip without returning to base camp.

Trécourt

Claudine Trécourt (b. 1962), French ski mountaineer and mountain climber

Vladas Vitkauskas

He is the first mountain climber to be awarded (1997) the diploma of honour of the international Fair Play Committee for participating in the rescue of the body of Pasang Lhamu, the leader of the Nepalese Women Everest Expedition (1993) from Mt. Everest.

William Maurice Brown

William Maurice Brown, Lt. Colonel, Squadron Leader, recipient of Britain's Order of British Empire, observer (Extra Ordinary) of the United Nations, New Zealand government minister, mountain climber, shooter, boxer, teacher, administrator, the founder of Faujdarhat Cadet College had left his disciples for eternal peace but his legend will continue to live.