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Born on this day

1997 Jacob Benjamin Weintraub, American climber, who ascended Lhotse in 2025.


First ascents on this day

1954 Chago (6893 m) by a party from New Zealand led by Edmund Hillary.


Gone on this day

2000 George Irving Bell, American pioneer, who participated in the first ascent of Masherbrum (7821 m) in 1960, died, aged 73.


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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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