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Born on this day

1986 Rahul Kumar Tyagi, Indian climber, who ascended Everest in 2013.


First ascents on this day

1953 Mera (6470 m, the original one !) by a British party.


Gone on this day

2013 Lee Hsiao-Shih, Taiwanese climber, who ascended Everest in 2009, Manaslu RP in 2011 and Lhotse in 2013, where he died on descent, aged 57.


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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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