Susan Erica Fear OAM was an Australian mountain climber and one of the recipients of the Order of Australia Medal in 2005, she was born on March 18, 1963 and passed away on May 28, 2006. She was also a supporter of the Fred Hollows Foundation. Her life and climbing career are detailed in her

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Albert Frederick Mummery was an English climber who was the first person to climb numerous Alpine peaks, including Dent du Requin, Col des Cortes, and Zmutt Ridge of the Matterhorn. He was born on September 10, 1855 in Dover, Kent, England, and passed away on August 24, 1895 in western Kashmir, India. Mummery was a

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During the 1960s and 1970s, Willi Unsoeld was possibly the most prominent high-altitude mountain climber. He was also a professor of philosophy at Evergreen State College, where he was well known for being an engaging and “spellbinding” speaker. Unsoeld made the first ascent of the West Ridge of Mount Everest in 1963. A significant portion

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It was on this day, August 7th, 1986, that the climber Juile Tullis suffered her fatal injury in the “Black Summer” of 1986 while descending from the peak of Mount K2 during a storm. He was one of four climbers from different teams who also perished during this time. An audio cassette tape journal that

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According to Reuters, KATMANDU, Nepal, on May 31, 1970, a British climber was killed on Annapurna I in the Himalayas. He had been assisting two other climbers in making the first ascent of the mountain’s south face. Ian Clough, who was thirty years old at the time, fell away in an icefall three days after

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