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Scott Fischer (ur. 24 grudnia 1955, zm. 11 maja 1996) – amerykański alpinista i himalaista. We wczesnych latach 1980. założył agencję „Mountain Madness”, która specjalizowała się w organizowaniu wypraw wysokogórskich.
Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide. He was renowned for ascending the world's highest mountains without supplemental oxygen. Fischer and Wally Berg were the first Americans to summit Lhotse (27,940 feet / 8516 m), the world's fourth highest peak. [1]
7 maj 2023 · Lider drugiej komercyjnej wyprawy Scott Fischer również zmarł na wysokości 8300 metrów. Mniej więcej w tym samym czasie po drugiej stronie masywu zmarło 3 Hindusów. Tym razem cena za zdobycie szczytu okazała się zbyt wysoka.
Numerous climbers were at a high altitude on Everest during the storm including the Adventure Consultants team, led by Rob Hall, and the Mountain Madness team, led by Scott Fischer. While climbers died on both the North Face and South Col approaches, the events on the latter were more widely reported.
Scott Fischer was an experienced American mountaineer and mountain guide who lost his life during the infamous 1996 Everest disaster. His death is one of the most notable in the history of Everest expeditions. Fischer died on May 11, 1996, during a descent from the summit of Mount Everest.
31 gru 2016 · On May 10, 1996, four groups of climbers set out to summit Mount Everest - one group led by Rob Hall of Adventure Consultants, another led by Scott Fischer of Mountain Madness, an expedition organized by the Indo-Tibetan Border Police and a Taiwanese expedition.
O n Friday, May 10, 1996, a severe and sudden storm trapped several climbers high on Mt. Everest as they were descending from the summit. In what has become the deadliest single tragedy in the mountain's climbing history, a total of eight people perished. One of them is renowned Seattle climbing guide Scott Fischer.
