Scott Fischer

Scott Fischer

male, deceased (1996)
Summiter of Mount Everest, guide, Mountaineering death, Mountain Madness, Dhaulagiri, snow blindness…SouthCol
Scott Fischer was an American climber and guide. Fischer spent his early life in Michigan and New Jersey and took two years of climbing courses...
Beck Weathers

Beck Weathers

male
American non-fiction outdoors writer, Amputee, memoirist, SouthCol, radial keratotomy, Mountain climber
Beck Weathers is an American pathologist from Texas. He is best known for his role in the 1996 Mount Everest disaster that has been the subject of...
Yasuko Namba

Yasuko Namba

female, deceased (1996)
mount everest, Anna Czerwiñska, Carstensz Pyramid, SouthCol, Vinson Massif, Aconcagua
Yasuko Namba (February 2 1949-May 10 1996) was famous in her native Japan for becoming only the second Japanese woman (after Junko Tabei) to summit...
Stephen Venables

Stephen Venables

male, 55 years old
Indian, himalayas, frostbite, Hindu Kush, abseiling, SouthCol
Stephen Venables (born 1954) is a British mountaineer and writer, who in 1988 became the first Briton to ascend to the summit of Mount Everest...