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Lars Olof Göran Kropp (11 December 1966 – 30 September 2002) was a Swedish mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support on 23 May 1996, after traveling there from Sweden by bicycle and foot. [1]
A reviewer of Kirkus Reviews stated "Mountain guide Boukreev tells his version of the events of the May 1996 Mt. Everest disaster, in which five climbers died, in an effort to clear his name of damning allegations made in Jon Krakauer's bestselling Into Thin Air. Boukreev is well known in climbing circles as a good, tough, experienced guide ...
Everest – Alone at the Summit, Odyssey, 1996, (ISBN 0952937506) (with Andy Fanshawe) Himalaya Alpine Style: The Most Challenging Routes on the Highest Peaks, Baton Wicks, 1999, (ISBN 1898573395) A Slender Thread: Escaping Disaster in the Himalaya, Arrow, 2001, (ISBN 0099279061) To the Top: The Story of Everest, Walker, 2004, (ISBN 1844287254)
After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy—One Survivor’s Story is a book by Lou Kasischke that details his experiences as a client on Rob Hall’s expedition during the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy. The accident killed eight climbers—including four from the Hall expedition—and remained the worst climbing accident on Everest until the 2014 ...
The intended 1923 expedition to Everest was delayed by financial and organizational reasons. There was insufficient time to prepare another expedition the following year. The film recorded by Noel during this expedition was also published. Climbing Mount Everest was shown for ten weeks in Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall. [2]
H. W. Tilman: The Collected Edition (Vertebrate Publishing and Lodestar Books, 2016–17), comprising: Snow on the Equator (1937) ISBN 9781909461147; The Ascent of Nanda Devi (1937) ISBN 9781909461185; When Men and Mountains Meet (1946) ISBN 9781909461222; Mount Everest 1938 (1948) ISBN 9781909461260; Two Mountains and a River (1949) ISBN ...
Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (Russian: Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a Soviet and Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m (26,247 ft)—without supplemental oxygen.
Tim Macartney-Snape AM (born 5 January 1956) is an Australian mountaineer and author. On 3 October 1984 Macartney-Snape and Greg Mortimer were the first Australians to reach the summit of Mount Everest.