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Born on this day

1968 Dafydd Morgan, British climber, who ascended Cho Oyu in 2004.


Event on this day

1993 Heo Young-Ho, Korean adventurer, and Ngati, Nepalese Sherpa climber, achieved the earliest Everest-ascent in any pre-monsoon season so far. They made a traverse from Tibet to Nepal in six days.


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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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