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Aconcagua
Aconcagua is the highest mountain outside Asia, at, and the highest point in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Adventure Consultants
Adventure Consultants, formerly Hall and Ball Adventure Consultants, is the name of an adventure company founded by Rob Hall and Gary Ball in 1991, noted for pioneering the commercialisation of Mount Everest and for the 1996 climb of Mount Everest in which several people died.
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After the Wind
After the Wind: 1996 Everest Tragedy – One Survivor’s Story is a book by Lou Kasischke that details his experiences as a client on Rob Hall’s expedition during the 1996 Mount Everest tragedy.
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Altitude sickness
Altitude sickness, also known as acute mountain sickness (AMS), is a negative health effect of high altitude, caused by acute exposure to low amounts of oxygen at high altitude.
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American Alpine Club
The American Alpine Club (AAC) is a non-profit member organization whose goal is "a united community of competent climbers and healthy climbing landscapes." The Club is housed in the American Mountaineering Center (AMC) in Golden, Colorado.
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Anatoli Boukreev
Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a Russian Kazakhstani mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks, i.e., peaks above, without supplemental oxygen.
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Andy Harris (mountain guide)
Andrew Michael Harris (29 September 1964 – 10 May 1996), known as Harold Harris, was a New Zealand mountain guide who died in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
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Ang Dorje Sherpa
Ang Dorje (Chhuldim) Sherpa (born 1970) is a Nepali sherpa mountaineering guide, climber and porter from Pangboche, Nepal, who has climbed to the summit of Mount Everest 19 times.
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Apa Sherpa
Apa (born Lhakpa Tenzing Sherpa; 20 January 1960), nicknamed "Super Sherpa", is a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer who, jointly with Phurba Tashi and Shishir Bhattarai, once held the record for reaching the summit of Mount Everest more times than any other person.
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April 2015 Nepal earthquake
The April 2015 Nepal earthquake (also known as the Gorkha earthquake) killed nearly 9,000 people and injured nearly 22,000.
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Beck Weathers
Seaborn Beck Weathers (born December 16, 1946) is an American pathologist from Texas.
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Blizzard
A blizzard is a severe snowstorm characterized by strong sustained winds of at least and lasting for a prolonged period of time—typically three hours or more.
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Broad Peak
Broad Peak (بروڈ پیک) is the 12th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.
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Cho Oyu
Cho Oyu (Nepali: चोयु) is the sixth highest mountain in the world at above sea level.
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Colorado
Colorado is a state of the United States encompassing most of the southern Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains.
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Dallas Opera
The Dallas Opera is an American opera company located in Dallas, Texas.
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David A. Sowles Memorial Award
The David A. Sowles Memorial Award is the American Alpine Club's highest award for valour, bestowed at irregular intervals on mountaineers who have "distinguished themselves, with unselfish devotion at personal risk or sacrifice of a major objective, in going to the assistance of fellow climbers imperilled in the mountains." It is named after David A. Sowles, a climber who died in the Alps in 1963.
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David Breashears
David Finlay Breashears (born December 20, 1955) is an American mountaineer, filmmaker, author, and motivational speaker.
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Denali
Denali (also known as Mount McKinley, its former official name) is the highest mountain peak in North America, with a summit elevation of above sea level.
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Doubleday (publisher)
Doubleday is an American publishing company founded as Doubleday & McClure Company in 1897 that by 1947 was the largest in the United States.
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Ed Viesturs
Edmund Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is a high-altitude mountaineer and corporate speaker.
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Eight-thousander
The eight-thousanders are the 14 independentIn making any "highest mountains" list, one needs to use a criterion to exclude subpeaks and only list independent mountains.
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Everest (1998 film)
Everest is a 70mm American documentary film, from MacGillivray Freeman Films, about the struggles involved in climbing Mount Everest, the highest mountain peak on Earth, located in the Himalayan region of Nepal.
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Everest (2015 film)
Everest is a 2015 biographical adventure film directed and produced by Baltasar Kormákur and written by William Nicholson and Simon Beaufoy, adapted from Beck Weathers' memoir Left for Dead: My Journey Home from Everest (2000).
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Frontline (U.S. TV series)
Frontline (styled by the program as FRONTLINE) is the flagship investigative journalism series of the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS), producing in-depth documentaries on a variety of domestic and international stories and issues, and broadcasting them on air and online.
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Gasherbrum I
Gasherbrum I (گاشر برم -1), surveyed as K5 and also known as Hidden Peak, is the 11th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.
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Gasherbrum II
Gasherbrum II (گاشر برم -2); surveyed as K4, is the 13th highest mountain in the world at above sea level.
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Gau Ming-Ho
Gau Ming-Ho (高銘和, born 1949), also known as Makalu Gau after the 5th highest peak in the world, is a Taiwanese mountaineer.
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Green Boots
Green Boots is the name given to the unidentified corpse of a climber that became a landmark on the main Northeast ridge route of Mount Everest.
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Guide
A guide is a person who leads travelers or tourists through unknown or unfamiliar locations.
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High-altitude cerebral edema
High-altitude cerebral edema (HACE) is a medical condition in which the brain swells with fluid because of the physiological effects of traveling to a high altitude.
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High-altitude pulmonary edema
High-altitude pulmonary edema (HAPE) (HAPO spelled oedema in British English) is a life-threatening form of non-cardiogenic pulmonary edema (fluid accumulation in the lungs) that occurs in otherwise healthy mountaineers at altitudes typically above.
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Hillary Step
The Hillary Step is, or possibly was, a nearly vertical rock face with a height of around located high on Mount Everest at approximately above sea level.
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Hypoxia (medical)
Hypoxia is a condition in which the body or a region of the body is deprived of adequate oxygen supply at the tissue level.
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Indo-Tibetan Border Police
The Indo-Tibetan Border Police (ITBP) is one of the five Central Armed Police Forces of India, raised on 24 October 1962, under the CRPF Act, in the wake of the Sino-Indian War of 1962.
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Into Thin Air
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt.
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Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
Into Thin Air: Death on Everest is a 1997 American disaster television film based on Jon Krakauer's memoir Into Thin Air (1997).
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Joby Talbot
Joby Talbot (born 25 August 1971) is a British composer.
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Jocelyn Pook
Jocelyn Pook (born 14 February 1960) is an English composer, pianist and viola player.
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Jon Krakauer
Jon Krakauer (born April 12, 1954) is an American writer and mountaineer, primarily known for his writings about the outdoors, especially mountain climbing.
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K2
K2 (کے ٹو), also known as Mount Godwin-Austen or Chhogori (Balti and چھوغوری),, at above sea level, is the second highest mountain in the world, after Mount Everest, at.
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Kangshung Face
The Kangshung Face or East Face is the eastern-facing side of Mount Everest, one of the Tibetan sides of the mountain.
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Kathmandu
Kathmandu (काठमाडौं, ये:. Yei, Nepali pronunciation) is the capital city of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal.
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Lene Gammelgaard
Lene Gammelgaard (born 18 December 1961) is a Danish author, keynote speaker, motivational speaker, lawyer, journalist, psychological counselor, mountaineer and expedition leader.
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Lhotse
Lhotse (ल्होत्से;, lho rtse) is the fourth highest mountain in the world at, after Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga.
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List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at is the world's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers.
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List of Colorado fourteeners
In the mountaineering parlance of the Western United States, a fourteener is a mountain peak with an elevation of at least 14,000 feet.
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List of deaths on eight-thousanders
The eight-thousanders are the 14 mountains that rise more than above sea level; they are all in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges.
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List of people who died climbing Mount Everest
Mount Everest, at is the world's highest mountain and a particularly desirable peak for mountaineers.
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Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa
Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa (ca. 1971-73 – 25 September 1996) was a Nepalese Sherpa mountaineering guide, climber and porter, best known for his work as the climbing Sirdar for Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness expedition to Everest in Spring 1996, when a freak storm led to the deaths of eight climbers from several expeditions, considered one of the worst disasters in the history of Everest mountaineering.
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Michael Groom (climber)
Michael Groom (born 1959) is an Australian mountain climber.
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Mount Everest
Mount Everest, known in Nepali as Sagarmāthā and in Tibetan as Chomolungma, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level, located in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas.
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Mount Kilimanjaro
Mount Kilimanjaro or just Kilimanjaro, with its three volcanic cones, "Kibo", "Mawenzi", and "Shira", is a dormant volcano in Tanzania.
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Mountain Madness
Mountain Madness is a Seattle-based mountaineering and trekking company.
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National Geographic (U.S. TV channel)
National Geographic (formerly National Geographic Channel and also commercially abbreviated and trademarked as Nat Geo or Nat Geo TV) is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by National Geographic Partners, majority-owned by 21st Century Fox with the remainder owned by the National Geographic Society.
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Neal Beidleman
Neal Beidleman is a mountaineer and climbing guide, known for surviving the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
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New Scientist
New Scientist, first published on 22 November 1956, is a weekly, English-language magazine that covers all aspects of science and technology.
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North Col
The North Col refers to the sharp-edged pass carved by glaciers in the ridge connecting Mount Everest and Changtse in Tibet, It forms the head of the East Rongbuk Glacier.
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North Face (Everest)
The North Face is the northern side of Mount Everest.
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Outside (magazine)
Outside is an American magazine focused on the outdoors.
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Oxygen
Oxygen is a chemical element with symbol O and atomic number 8.
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Oxygen mask
An oxygen mask provides a method to transfer breathing oxygen gas from a storage tank to the lungs.
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Palliative care
Palliative care is a multidisciplinary approach to specialized medical and nursing care for people with life-limiting illnesses.
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Pete Schoening
Peter Kittilsby Schoening (July 30, 1927 – September 22, 2004) was an American mountaineer.
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Rob Hall
Robert Edwin Hall (14 January 1961 – 11 May 1996) was a New Zealand mountaineer best known for being the head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition in which he died, along with a fellow guide and two clients.
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Robert J. Avrech
Robert J. Avrech is an American screenwriter whose works include the 1984 film Body Double (with Brian De Palma) and A Stranger Among Us (1992).
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Robert Markowitz
Robert Markowitz (born February 7, 1935 in Irvington, New Jersey) is an American film director and television director.
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Sandy Hill (mountaineer)
Sandra Hill (born April 12, 1955, formerly Sandra Hill Pittman) is a socialite, mountaineer, author, and former fashion editor.
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Sardar
Sardar (سردار,; "Commander" literally; "Headmaster"), also spelled as Sirdar, Sardaar, Shordar or Serdar, is a title of nobility that was originally used to denote princes, noblemen, and other aristocrats.
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Sardar (Sherpa)
A Sardar or Sirdar is a Sherpa mountain guide who manages all the other Sherpas in a climbing expedition or trekking group.
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Scott Fischer
Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide.
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Seven Summits
The Seven Summits are the highest mountains of each of the seven continents.
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South Col
The South Col is the sharp-edged notch or pass between Mount Everest and Lhotse, the highest and fourth highest mountains in the world, respectively.
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South Summit (Mount Everest)
The South Summit of Mount Everest in the Himalayas is the second-highest peak on Earth, and is a subsidiary peak to the primary peak of Mount Everest.
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The Austin Chronicle
The Austin Chronicle is an alternative weekly newspaper published every Thursday in Austin, Texas, United States.
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The Climb (book)
The Climb (1997), republished as The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest, is an account by Russian-Kazakhstani mountaineer Anatoli Boukreev of the 1996 Everest Disaster, during which eight climbers died on the mountain.
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Tsewang Paljor
Tsewang Paljor (10 April 1968 – 10 May 1996) was a member of the first Indian team to reach the summit of Mount Everest from the North Col.
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Tsewang Samanla
Tsewang Samanla was one among three Indians who died on Mount Everest in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster.
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University of Toronto
The University of Toronto (U of T, UToronto, or Toronto) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on the grounds that surround Queen's Park.
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Vinson Massif
Vinson Massif is a large mountain massif in Antarctica that is long and wide and lies within the Sentinel Range of the Ellsworth Mountains.
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Yasuko Namba
was the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei) to reach all of the Seven Summits including Everest, where she died.
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1953 American Karakoram expedition
The 1953 American Karakoram expedition was a mountaineering expedition to K2, at 8,611 metres the second highest mountain on Earth.
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2014 Mount Everest ice avalanche
On 18 April 2014, seracs on the western spur of Mount Everest failed, resulting in an ice avalanche that killed sixteen climbing Sherpas in the Khumbu Icefall.
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2015 Mount Everest avalanches
During the afternoon of 25 April 2015, a MW 7.8 earthquake struck Nepal and surrounding countries.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996_Mount_Everest_disaster
