2013 Event County Wicklow, Ireland holds funeral services for Irish mountaineer, Ian McKeever, who was killed by lightning on Mount Kilimanjaro 1997 Death 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 Death Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer, dies at 89 1996 Death Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman, dies at 35 1996 Death William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author, dies at 83 1995 Death Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor, dies at 77 1995 Death Alison Hargreaves, mountaineer, dies at 33 1995 Death Paul James Nunn, mountaineer, dies at 52 1961 Birthday Robert Edwin Hall, mountaineer/businessman 1958 Birthday 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' 1943 Birthday Paul James Nunn, mountaineer 1941 Birthday Douglas Scott, mountaineer 1919 Birthday Edmund Hillary, born in Auckland, New Zealand, mountaineer, explorer, first climber to summit Mount Everest 1918 Birthday Robert Charles Evans, mountaineer/doctor 1913 Birthday William Hutchinson Murray, mountaineer/author 1911 Death Edward Whymper, English mountaineer (Ascent of Matterhorn), dies 1906 Birthday Ivan Mark Waller, mountaineer 1374 Death Francesco Petrarca, Petracco, Italian mountaineer/poet, dies at 69
