Lino Lacedelli

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINVOjrXVdrVF3qjL21bhB8zQLn9CWhL4Zvtj7bwcTfWTwIDHu5qscOqDmhc4XnCfh4UIPyltk6J2LZYSvKrfaeYHn1AR4_dfMHx9KF_mfsw-OShgt6rgnAVXBCtfXsvbwfkJxZtV_E-s/s1600/500px-Group_of_Chiltan_Adventurers_with_Lino_Lacedelli_Italian_Mountaineer_2004-723430.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6143850322695252594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiINVOjrXVdrVF3qjL21bhB8zQLn9CWhL4Zvtj7bwcTfWTwIDHu5qscOqDmhc4XnCfh4UIPyltk6J2LZYSvKrfaeYHn1AR4_dfMHx9KF_mfsw-OShgt6rgnAVXBCtfXsvbwfkJxZtV_E-s/s320/500px-Group_of_Chiltan_Adventurers_with_Lino_Lacedelli_Italian_Mountaineer_2004-723430.jpg"></a></p><p><b>Lino Lacedelli</b> (4 December 1925 â€" 20 November 2009) was an Italian mountaineer. Together with Achille Compagnoni, on 31 July 1954 he was the first man to reach the summit of K2. He is also noted for betraying his teammates Pakistani Amir Mehdi and Italian Walter Bonatti and leaving them in a life-threatening situation in order to ensure that he reached the summit first.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Early_life">Early life</span></h2><br><img alt="Lino Lacedelli" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e3/Group_of_Chiltan_Adventurers_with_Lino_Lacedelli_Italian_Mountaineer_2004.jpg/220px-Group_of_Chiltan_Adventurers_with_Lino_Lacedelli_Italian_Mountaineer_2004.jpg" style="width:400px;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Lino Lacedelli"><br> <p>Lacedelli was born in Cortina d'Ampezzo (Province of Belluno).</p> <p>His climbing career began as a young teenager when he followed a mountain guide up a local summit. He soon came under the tutelage </p>

Lino Lacedelli

Lino Lacedelli (4 December 1925 â€" 20 November 2009) was an Italian mountaineer. Together with Achille Compagnoni, on 31 July 1954 he...

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Achille Compagnoni

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFsChdqtzYoUDr0ZZ6cnHGzZ5qgMS7rcs34bNTYnCrg2a_I83xmeoNbomKoUvO6ouflnD90WpSVim2mQ167H_nPuMIeHqZlWYTazNYPqgMIL533zdzqQ5s4nWMh-YmIIrW7KmJ4VGVTI/s1600/Compagnoni_summit_K2-722958.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6143842590709339410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBFsChdqtzYoUDr0ZZ6cnHGzZ5qgMS7rcs34bNTYnCrg2a_I83xmeoNbomKoUvO6ouflnD90WpSVim2mQ167H_nPuMIeHqZlWYTazNYPqgMIL533zdzqQ5s4nWMh-YmIIrW7KmJ4VGVTI/s320/Compagnoni_summit_K2-722958.jpg"></a></p><p><b>Achille Compagnoni</b> (26 September 1914 â€" 13 May 2009) was an Italian mountaineer and skier. Together with Lino Lacedelli and Walter Bonatti, on 31 July 1954 he reached the summit of K2. He is also noted for betraying his teammates Pakistani Amir Mehdi and Italian Walter Bonatti and leaving them in a life-threatening situation in order to ensure that he reached the summit first.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Biography">Biography</span></h2><br><img alt="Achille Compagnoni" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6e/Compagnoni_summit_K2.jpg/220px-Compagnoni_summit_K2.jpg" style="width:400px;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Achille Compagnoni"><br> <p>Compagnoni was born in Santa Caterina di Valfurva, in the province of Sondrio (Lombardy).</p> <p>On the successful K2 expedition, Compagnoni's decision to place the final camp (IX) at a higher location than formerly agreed was a source of controversy. Compagnoni alleged that Walter Bonatt</p>

Achille Compagnoni

Achille Compagnoni (26 September 1914 â€" 13 May 2009) was an Italian mountaineer and skier. Together with Lino Lacedelli and Walter B...

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Tenzing Norgay

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5865sGsHz8Z3oMiRm4gJ5L-x4Ulfpyzqd0ZJ1aAlV51220PZyFWzo6jWlgjuMmWIpm2Qbs8SRJ6uvYd1NVeBLbAnIhvL74DIbPxJv67vnuV3XRWlyQnqvzFWTmAxX0gcYtgrw1_z1v8/s1600/319px-Tenzing_Norgay_%252528cropped%252529-723275.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6143819398007899522" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiX5865sGsHz8Z3oMiRm4gJ5L-x4Ulfpyzqd0ZJ1aAlV51220PZyFWzo6jWlgjuMmWIpm2Qbs8SRJ6uvYd1NVeBLbAnIhvL74DIbPxJv67vnuV3XRWlyQnqvzFWTmAxX0gcYtgrw1_z1v8/s320/319px-Tenzing_Norgay_%252528cropped%252529-723275.jpg"></a></p><p><b>Tenzing Norgay</b> OSN GM (29 May 1914 â€" 9 May 1986), born <b>Namgyal Wangdi</b> and often referred to as <b>Sherpa Tenzing</b>, was a Nepalese Indian Sherpa mountaineer. Among the most famous mountain climbers in history, he was one of the first two individuals known to reach the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. He was named by <i>Time</i> as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.</p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Early_life">Early life</span></h2><br><img alt="Tenzing Norgay" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4b/Tenzing_Norgay_(cropped).jpg/220px-Tenzing_Norgay_(cropped).jpg" style="width:400px;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Tenzing Norgay"><br> <p>There are conflicting accounts of his early life. The account that he gave in his autobiography, accepted for several years, is that he was a Sherpa born and brought up in Tengboche, Khumbu in northeastern Nepal. Ho</p>

Tenzing Norgay

Tenzing Norgay OSN GM (29 May 1914 â€" 9 May 1986), born Namgyal Wangdi and often referred to as Sherpa Tenzing , was a Nepalese Indi...

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Edmund Hillary

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBCSSekPreQ2Ykqg1H-ia6KfBkdS3ZvRspYvrbNpRt_14LIhzsK1dZ9keQrjG4uELIxxv192ZgQwPe0AvyMc94KnPAEYxNTEYFta6N7Kqpuv4aA0_jS-yESM1sSMu2n174yoRnVwzmyE/s1600/394px-Edmund_Hillary%25252C_c._1953%25252C_autograph_removed-723932.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6143811670894081922" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGBCSSekPreQ2Ykqg1H-ia6KfBkdS3ZvRspYvrbNpRt_14LIhzsK1dZ9keQrjG4uELIxxv192ZgQwPe0AvyMc94KnPAEYxNTEYFta6N7Kqpuv4aA0_jS-yESM1sSMu2n174yoRnVwzmyE/s320/394px-Edmund_Hillary%25252C_c._1953%25252C_autograph_removed-723932.jpg"></a></p><p><b>Sir Edmund Percival Hillary</b> <span>KG ONZ KBE</span> (20 July 1919 â€" 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropist. On 29 May 1953, Hillary and Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to reach the summit of Mount Everest. They were part of the ninth British expedition to Everest, led by John Hunt. Hillary was named by <i>Time</i> as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.</p> <p>Hillary became interested in mountaineering while in secondary school, making his first major climb in 1939, reaching the summit of Mount Ollivier. He served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force as a navigator during World War II. Prior to the 1953 Everest expedition, Hillary had been part of the British reconnaissance expedition to the mountain in 1951, as well as an unsuccessful attempt to climb Cho Oyu in 1952. As part of the Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition he reached the South Pole overland in 1958. He subseque</p>

Edmund Hillary

Sir Edmund Percival Hillary KG ONZ KBE (20 July 1919 â€" 11 January 2008) was a New Zealand mountaineer, explorer and philanthropis...

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Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

<p><b>Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner</b> (born 13 December 1970) is an Austrian mountaineer. In August 2011, she became the second woman to climb the fourteen eight-thousanders, and the first woman to do so without the use of supplementary oxygen or high altitude porters.</p> <p></p> <p></p> <h2><span id="Mountaineering">Mountaineering</span></h2><br><img alt="Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/af/Edurne_Pasaban,_2010-07-01.jpg/266px-Edurne_Pasaban,_2010-07-01.jpg" style="width:400px;display:block;margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto" title="Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner"><br> <p>Her interest in mountain climbing developed at a young age, and by the age of 13 she had completed climbing tours at the local Sturzhahn. As she pursued her nursing training in Vienna, Austria, she continued to hone her skills by participating in numerous ski, ice- and rock-climbing tours. At the age of 32, Gerlinde climbed her fourth 8000m peak, Nanga Parbat, and decided to</p>

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 13 December 1970) is an Austrian mountaineer. In August 2011, she became the second woman to climb the fourtee...

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Elizabeth Hawley

<p class="mobile-photo"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEienzh717l-1i1XuF7rg0Q0SCf-ZEyBAkZOAtzgR7BkvbRMrFGitcDzYz8jx5DdcDEMEpQwMaaN2SuuAveWTCYdh3PrndQOQo-IuHIvIBdXICcFJ4e73o1zT-Y0NOYTqF0B3NtACKFmXmE/s1600/500px-Miss_Hawley-724598.JPG"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_6143796207305364466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEienzh717l-1i1XuF7rg0Q0SCf-ZEyBAkZOAtzgR7BkvbRMrFGitcDzYz8jx5DdcDEMEpQwMaaN2SuuAveWTCYdh3PrndQOQo-IuHIvIBdXICcFJ4e73o1zT-Y0NOYTqF0B3NtACKFmXmE/s320/500px-Miss_Hawley-724598.JPG"></a></p><p><i>"Miss Hawley" redirects here. For other people of the same name see Hawley (surname).</i></p> <p><b>Elizabeth Hawley</b> (born November 9, 1923, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American former journalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions. She travelled to Nepal in September 1960 and never left.</p> <p>She was educated at the University of Michigan. She moved to Nepal after giving up her job as a researcher for <i>Fortune</i> magazine in New York and visiting Kathmandu on a round-the-world trip. Working briefly as a reporter, Hawley went back to San Francisco, returning to Nepal a few years later as journalist for <i>Time</i>.</p> <p>She found work with the Reuters news agency covering mountaineering news, including the 1963 American expedition that was the first from the United States to traverse Mount Everest.</p> <p>While she has never climbed a mountain herself, Hawley has been the best-known chronicler of Himalayan expeditions for over four decades. She is respected by th</p>

Elizabeth Hawley

"Miss Hawley" redirects here. For other people of the same name see Hawley (surname). Elizabeth Hawley (born November 9, 19...

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