Category: Mount Kilimanjaro

According to sources from the South African police department, Arne Naess, a Norwegian shipping billionaire and the former husband of the singer Diana Ross, passed away on January 13, 2004, while mountain climbing in South Africa. Naess was 66 years old. Mary Martins-Engelbrecht, a spokesman for the police department, stated that Mr. Naess was climbing in the Groot Drakenstein mountains, which are around 56 kilometers (44 miles) away from Cape Town, when he reportedly fell around noon on Tuesday. Mr. Naess was climbing on his own, without much protective gear, only ropes and a harness, according to Ms. Martins-Engelbrecht. It is believed that he slipped and plummeted around 320 feet to his death. No suspects of wrongdoing were found. Johan Rupert, the son of South African industrialist Anton Rupert, was waiting at the base of the mountain for Mr. Naess when the disaster occurred. Mr. Naess was paying a visit to Johan Rupert. In April of 1985, Mr. Naess led a group of Norwegian climbers to the top of Mount Everest. He was a seasoned mountaineer who had participated in the expedition. The offspring of a marriage that ended in divorce, Naess was brought up by his uncle, who was also called Arne Naess. Naess was born in Oslo. At a young age, his uncle introduced him to the activities of mountain climbing, skiing, and ski jumping. In the past, People magazine referred to the adventurous actions that young Arne Naess engaged in as the reason for his rise to fame. During the year 1956, he celebrated his graduation from school by climbing the spire of the National Theater building in Oslo and placing his cap on the needle of the structure, as reported by People. After some time, he found himself working for a different uncle in New York

As a result of the tragic death of Swedish alpinist and skier Fredrik Ericsson on K2 on Friday, what had begun as a week filled with great optimism in the Karakoram has unfortunately developed into a week filled with grief. It was Ericsson and his colleague, Trey Cook, from the United States, who had the goal of being the first men to ascend Mount K2 and then descend on skis. On account of the fact that a previous attempt to top K2 that comprised Ericsson, Cook, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Kinga Baranowska, and Fabrizio Zangrilli was unsuccessful due to inclement weather last week, it appeared as though the mountain would remain unclimbed for another year. This week, however, there was a single final try at making a hail mary because of an unusual period of weather that was unseasonably warm. The sun, however, did not provide a guarantee of perfect protection. Over the course of the week, climbers had to avoid bowling ball-sized rocks that had been disturbed by snow melt and were falling down the mountain. While they were sleeping with their helmets on, the climbers had already reached Camp 4 by the time they arrived. All of the individuals, with the exception of Ericsson, Cook, and Kaltenbrunner, decided to remain in their tents on August 6th due to the return of the inclement weather. In the midst of the whiteout conditions, the three individuals pushed uphill, with Cook turning around below the Bottle Neck. Once Ericsson had entered the Bottle Neck, he was attempting to repair a rope that was in front of Kaltenbrunner when he lost his purchase. He was unable to stop his fall from occurring. With no injuries, Kaltenbrunner made his way back to Camp 4. The result is that K2 has claimed yet another brilliant mountain

During the month of May in the year 1888, Owen Glynne Jones accomplished the first ever recorded ascent of Cader Idris by travelling over the east ridge of the Cyfrwy. After the passing of his mother in 1882, Jones relocated to Barmouth, where he became a mountaineer and a teacher. Jones was born in London in 1867 to parents who were from Wales. Afterwards, he proceeded to get a class honours degree in experimental physics and eventually became the physics master at the City of London School. Climbing became a hobby for him in the year 1888, and despite the fact that he knew nothing more about organized climbing than what he had learned from reading about the Alps, he managed to scale the east ridge of Cadair Idris by himself. W.P. Haskett Smith and others had been climbing in the English Lake District for around three years at this point in time, despite the fact that rock climbing had just begun to gather momentum at this point in time. Due to his extraordinary strength, his 'almost magical' climbing abilities, and his scientific approach, Jones made his way to the Lake District in the year 1890. However, it was not long before he became known to the pioneers. Although some people have speculated that this was due to his short-sightedness, it was said that he was fearless when climbing over a drop when he was a rock climber. On the other hand, he was the pioneer of several first climbs and was also in the forefront of developing new climbing methods in the sport of rock climbing. At the Wasdale Head pub in the Lake District, he became well-known for his gymnastic acrobatics that he performed throughout the establishment. He jokingly referred to himself as "the Only Genuine Jones." After

 John Harlin sustained a fatal fall from a height of 4,000 feet after being hit by a stone on March 22, 1966, at the tender age of only 30 years,in the Bernese Highlands, Switzerland. Having established himself as a leading alpine climber with the first American ascent in 1962 of the 1938 Heckmair Route on the north face of the Eiger, and the first ascent of the American Direct route on Les Dru, he conceived of climbing the Eiger by a direttissima (Italian for "most direct") route. At a height of two thousand feet above the top, his rope snapped, causing him to fall and die in the year 1966. After reaching the summit with a German group that had joined forces to pursue the same route, the Harlin route was named after the Scottish mountaineer Dougal Haston, who had been climbing with Harlin. Haston had been climbing with Harlin. Peter Gillman, a British novelist who was also a member of the ground crew, and Dougal Haston wrote the book Direttissima: The Eiger Assault, in which they told the narrative of the climb. Harlin established the "International School of Modern Mountaineering" in Leysin, Switzerland, in 1965. The term "Modern" was eventually removed from the name of the institution. At one point in his career, Harlin held the position of athletics director at the Leysin American School. However, John Harlin was not satisfied with his accomplishment of climbing the north face of the Eiger. He was the first American to do it. His goal was to be the first person to accomplish the feat of climbing the north face of the Eiger DIRECT. He had spent years planning and practising for this climb, which turned out to be the most significant ascent of his whole life: the Eiger Direct. During this

On October 24, 1999,  Ginette Harrison passed away in an avalanche on Dhaulagiri I, which is located in Nepal and is 26,795 feet high. 41 was Harrison's age. On the upper peak, Harrison, a surgeon and climber who had climbed at least four eight thousand-meter summits, was murdered together with a Sherpa climbing companion. Harrison's death occurred on the upper mountain. Gary Pfisterer, Harrison's American husband, was heading the 11-person climbing team that was participating in the Dhaulagiri trip. Harrison, who was originally from the United Kingdom, had recently relocated to Massachusetts with her husband. At the time, Harrison was considered to be among the most powerful female climbers in the entire globe. Up to the time of her passing, she had the distinction of being the first woman to climb Kangchenjunga, which is 28,170 feet high, and survive the descent. One of the most accomplished female mountaineers in the world, a British woman, was killed in an avalanche. She climbed Everest in 1993, Cho Oyu in 1997, Kangchenjunga (first female ascent) and Shisha Pangma Central-Peak in 1998 and Makalu in 1999. Ginette Harrison, a British general practitioner who turned out to be the first woman to ascend the world's third highest mountain, was swept to her death while attempting to scale Nepal's hazardous Dhaulagiri I, which is the seventh highest peak. Harrison was 41 years old. Her American husband, Gary Pfisterer, who was also the expedition leader, was the one who delivered the news of her passing. He did this by using a satellite phone to get in touch with the head of the organization that was in charge of the trip. "We lost Ginette," he confided in Murari Sharma. They were climbing the distant 8,167-meter peak alongside an expedition from France. The eleven-person team consisted of climbers from