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1997 Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb', dies at 39

1996 Alan Hargreaves, climber, dies at 92

1996 Sydney Thompson, rock Climber, dies at 81

1995 Paul WIlliams, climber, dies at 49

1986 Tenzing Norgay, Tibetan climber (Mount Everest 1953), dies at 71

1958 Anatoli Boukreev, born in Russia, Anatolij Nikolaevich Bukreev, climber, mountaineer, made seven, 8,000-metre peaks without supplemental oxygen, died in avalanche on Annapurna, chronicled in books 'Into Thin Air', 'The Climb'

1944 Reinhold Messner, Italian mountain climber, Mount Everest

1941 Naomi Uemura, mountain climber, 1st Japanese to scale Everest

1934 John Storey Bonington, UK, mountain climber, Annapurna I in 1970

1929 Jim Whittacker, mountain climber, 1st American to climb Mount Everest

1928 John Reginald "Nat" Allen, planning enforcement officer/climber

1919 Edmund Hillary, born in Auckland, New Zealand, mountaineer, explorer, first climber to summit Mount Everest

1914 Sydney Thompson, rock climber

1886 George Mallory, England, mountain climber, "because it is there"

1873 Luigi A, duke of the Abruzzes, Italy, explorer/climber, Mount St. Elias

1850 Annie S Peck, mountain climber/explorer/diplomat


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