Simone Moro
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Simone Moro is an Italian mountaineer and alpinist who is known for making first winter ascents of four of the fourteen eight-thousanders, which were: Shishapangma in 2005, Makalu in 2009, Gasherbrum
Portrait of Simone Moro
Anatoli Boukreev
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Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev was a Russian-born Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m —without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he
Simone Moro
…m (23,300 ft). In 1997 he summited Lhotse. In Winter of 1997 he attempted the South face of Annapurna. During this attempt, his climbing companions Anatoli Boukreev and Dimitri Sobolev died in an avalanche. He tried Everest again in 1998; summited four peaks Pik Lenin (7,134 m (23,406 ft)), Peak Korzhenevskaya…
Boukreev in 1991
Boukreev in 1991 Photo by: Jaan Kynnap
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View of Mount Everest from Rongbuk Glacier