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Experience the incredible and tragic story of Francys Arsentiev, a mountaineer who pushed boundaries and faced unimaginable challenges on her quest to conque...
21 kwi 2023 · In this video we retrace their last moments together, before a tragic and fatal fate. The story of Francys Distefano and Sergei Arsentiev will be remembered as one of the most beautiful and at...
8 cze 2021 · Four hours from the summit of Everest, Cathy O'Dowd came across a stricken climber. She faced a brutal choice: to risk her own life in a doomed rescue - or t...
16 lip 2023 · For almost nine years, the haunting corpse of “Sleeping Beauty” lay right where it had fallen on the upper slopes of Mount Everest. Finally, in 2007, Francys Arsentiev was given a proper burial and her tragic story was brought to an end.
Francys Arsentiev (January 18, 1958 – May 24, 1998) became the first woman from the United States to reach the summit of Mount Everest without the aid of bottled oxygen, on May 22, 1998. [1] She then died during the descent.
Francys Distefano-Arsentiev died on Everest in 1998, and came to be known as “Sleeping Beauty”. Her son, Paul Distefano recalls just how distressing it was seeing photographs of his mother’s...
Francys died on May 24, 1998, at the age of 40, in the same spot where she was last seen. The subsequent discovery of her body near the northeast ridge bestowed upon her the moniker “Sleeping Beauty.” She appeared peaceful, lying in the snow as if in slumber rather than the grip of death.
