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7 lip 2023 · Doug Hansen, an American climber and postal worker, tragically lost his life during the 1996 Mount Everest Disaster. Hansen, dubbed “mailman” due to his occupation, joined Rob Hall’s Adventure Consultants team with the aim of summiting Everest that season.
14 maj 1996 · With Hansen's corpse beside him in a snow hole, Hall used his fading radio to link up with a satellite telephone at the base of the mountain to speak to his wife, Jan Arnold, in Christchurch,...
29 kwi 2020 · The next day at 4:43am Hall radioed in from the Hilary Step stating that Hansen was gone and Harris was missing. Later in the afternoon, still stuck on the mountain, he requested base camp to call his wife for him.
26 sie 2015 · Eight people died during the Mount Everest disaster that unfolded May 10-11, 1996. The fatalities included Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, Andy Harris, Doug Hansen, Yasuko Namba, Tsewang Samanla, Dorje Morup, and Tsewang Paljor.
His body was found on 23 May by Ed Viesturs and fellow mountaineers from the IMAX expedition, but was left there as requested by his wife, who said she thought he was "where he'd liked to have stayed". [27] They did, however, bring her back his wedding band. The bodies of Doug Hansen and Andy Harris have never been found.
Doug Hansen. A postal worker from Washington state who had been climbing for 12 years, Hansen turned back just short of Everest's summit in 1995. Lou Kasischke: Doug was a very likeable,...
Doug Hansen from Kent, Washington, was possibly the first and only postal worker to successfully climb Mt. Everest. This article explores his amazing feat and his tragic death.
