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  2. Ali Sadpara - Wikipedia

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    Muhammad Ali Sadpara (Urdu: محمد علی سدپارہ; () 2 February 1976 – February 2021) [2] was a Pakistani high-altitude mountaineer.He was part of the team (which included Italian alpinist Simone Moro and Spanish alpinist Alex Txikon) that completed the first winter ascent of Nanga Parbat in 2016. [3]

  3. Albert F. Mummery - Wikipedia

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    Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855, Dover, Kent, England – 24 August 1895, Nanga Parbat), was an English mountaineer and author. Although most notable for his many and varied first ascents put up in the Alps , Mummery, along with J. Norman Collie , Geoffrey Hastings , and two Gurkhas are also the first men in recorded history to have ...

  4. Anatoli Boukreev - Wikipedia

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    Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (Russian: Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a Soviet-born Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m (26,247 ft)—without supplemental oxygen.

  5. Mercury Mountaineer - Wikipedia

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    The 1997-2001 Mercury Mountaineer shares the chassis of the four-door Ford Explorer, following its 1995 redesign. Though heavily based upon the first-generation Ford Ranger, the sport-utility vehicles are wider and are based on a separate wheelbase. As with the Ford Explorer, the Mountaineer is fitted with fully independent wishbone front ...

  6. Don Whillans - Wikipedia

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    Whillans was an apprentice plumber when he started his climbing career with Joe Brown in 1951. Whillans met Brown while climbing at the Roaches in Staffordshire.When Brown's climbing partner failed to follow him up a new route, Whillans asked if he could try—and subsequently led the second pitch of Brown's new route, which became known as "Matinee".

  7. Lincoln Hall (climber) - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln Ross Hall OAM (19 December 1955 – 20 March 2012) was a veteran Australian mountaineer, adventurer and author.Lincoln was part of the first Australian expedition to climb Mount Everest in 1984, which successfully forged a new route.

  8. Sonam Gyatso (mountaineer) - Wikipedia

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    Sonam Gyatso (1923–1968) was an Indian mountaineer. [1] He was the 2nd Indian man, the 17th man in world and first person from Sikkim to summit Mount Everest , the highest peak in the world. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was one of the nine summiters of the first successful Indian Everest Expeditions that climbed Mount Everest in May 1965 led by Captain M S ...

  9. Marty Hoey - Wikipedia

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    Marty Hoey (1951 – May 15, 1982) was a mountaineer and mountain guide who took part in a 1982 expedition to Mount Everest.During an attempted ascent that would have made her the first American woman to summit Everest, she plunged over the edge of the Great Couloir to her death, as the result of an unsecured climbing harness.