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2006 - Doug Coombs Killed
4/04/06 - Legendary ski mountaineer and Teton climbing guide Doug Coombs was killed yesterday near La Grave, France, along with American Chad VanderHam. 1/31/06 - Jean-Christophe Lafaille, one of France’s greatest modern climbers, is now believed dead high on the slopes of Makalu, where he was attempting the peak’s first winter ascent completely solo. 5/31/05 - A week ago, Biskit, the beloved climbing dog went missing in Gold Hill, Colorado and never returned. 5/06/05 - Climber, mountain guide, educator and activist Jim Ratz was killed May 4 in a fall in Sinks Canyon, near his home in Lander, Wyoming. 2/07/05 - Anderl Heckmair, who led the first ascent of the great North Face of the Eiger in Switzerland, died last week at age 98. 9/23/04 - Pete Schoening, one of the greatest climbers from the golden age of expeditionary mountaineering in the 1950s, died this week. He was 77. 7/14/04 - Longtime climber and climbing activist Reese Martin III was killed July 9 in a paragliding accident in Washington State. 7/01/04 - Jules Cartwright, 29, one of the foremost British alpinists of his generation, was killed in a fall from the Piz Badile in Switzerland, along with his client, Julie Colverd, a 43-year-old Scottish police officer. 4/29/04 - Patrick Berhault, one of the most visionary and accomplished climbers of recent decades, died in a fall from the Dom, the highest peak in Switzerland, three-quarters of the way through his unprecedented bid to climb all of the 4,000-meter peaks of the Alps non-stop by foot and ski. 11/26/03 - Jack Durrance, one of the best American climbers of the late 1930s and early ’40s, has died at 91.
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