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Born on this day

1985 Jangbu XIV, Nepalese Sherpa climber, who ascended Everest in 2023.


First ascent on this day

2003 Hungchhi (7029 m) by a Japanese party.


Event on this day

1863 Swiss Alpine Club founded in Olten. In their famous bulletin "Die Alpen" they published the Himalayan chronicles of Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth.


Gone on this day

2018 Ángel María (Mari) Ábrego, Spanish Basque climber, who ascended Kumbhakarna (aka Jannu) in 1981, Makalu in 1984, K2 in 1986, Nanga Parbat in 1992, Broad Peak in 1995 and Cho Oyu in 1999, died, aged 73.


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Italian pioneer and Polish mountaineer died
Saturday, 08 August 2009 16:30

On August 6th, Riccardo Cassin, the leader of the successful Gasherbrum IV expedition in 1958, died, aged 100.

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Yesterday the Polish mountaineer Andrzej Marciniak was found dead on Posrednia Gran in the High Tatras. He ascended Everest in 1989 and Annapurna I in 1996. He was 50 years old.

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