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"Ger died doing what he loved: touching the void" – Mountaineer Pat Falvey writes comments in the Irish Independent, 4 August 2008 "Dreamers who risk death to feel most alive" – Derek Fanning writes for the Irish Independent, 10 August 2008 "The Time Has Come: Ger McDonnell ‑ His Life And His Death on K2" by Damien O'Brien, Gerard's ...
Mallory's body was found in 1999 but clues about Irvine's fate were elusive until a National Geographic team discovered a boot, still clothing the remains of a foot, on the peak's Central Rongbuk ...
The group, which included a climber from Colorado and another from Canada, had been missing since Monday. New Zealand police confirmed the deaths Thursday after search teams found climbing gear, […]
DNA testing found the remains are those of a German climber who vanished in September 1986, police said. The then 38-year-old man was reported missing after failing to return from a hike, police said.
Michael Reardon (May 1, 1965 – July 13, 2007) was an American professional free solo climber, filmmaker, motivational speaker and writer. Reardon died at age 42, after being swept to sea by a rogue wave , shortly after climbing a sea cliff at Dohilla in County Kerry , Ireland.
On July 9, 2007, Boskoff's company reported her body had been found the previous week, though the danger of falling rocks stopped search crews from retrieving her body. [5] Boskoff's body was not brought down from the 20,000-foot (6,100 m) peak for two months, until 15 rescuers could climb the rocky terrain to bring it down.
Two climbers who were reported missing on Mt. Whitney's experts-only Mountaineer's Route on Tuesday have been found dead. Andrew Niziol, 28, of South Lake Tahoe, and Patty Bolan, 29, were ...
Ian McKeever (13 February 1970 – 2 January 2013) was an Irish mountaineer and motivational speaker. He once held the world record for the fastest completion of the Seven Summits challenge, completing the Messner and Bass lists in a record 156 days. He was killed by a lightning strike on Kilimanjaro.