Today, British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves would have turned 63. Hargreaves dedicated her life to climbing but died too early, in the 1995 K2 tragedy. Hargreaves was born in Derbyshire, England, on ...
As the lone figure approached the summit of Mount Everest buffeted by winds zipping around its dizzyingly steep and treacherous slopes, the sense of achievement was palpable. Here she was, the first ...
LONDON — Remember her at the summit, at the craggy, forbidding edges of the planet, where life is grasped in short gasps of thin air, and where death is but a step away. Alison Hargreaves, mountain ...
“I think I was being quite conservative,” says British alpinist Alison Hargreaves, defending a climb of the Eiger Nordwand that she made in 1988 during her sixth month of pregnancy. “I had planned a ...
When British alpinist Alison Hargreaves died on K2 (8,611 meters) in 1995, her son Tom was only 6 years old. A quarter of a century later, Tom perished during an attempt on Nanga Parbat (8,126 meters) ...
Was Alison Hargreave’s solo ascent of Everest without supplemental oxygen last May really the greatest feat ever by a woman mountaineer? Both the 33-year-old mother of two and her hardworking PR ...
Search crews began looking for Tom Ballard — whose mother was killed while climbing the peak K2 in 1995 — on Thursday An emergency rescue crew in Pakistan is desperately searching for a British ...
On Aug. 13, 1995, British climber Alison Hargreaves was blown off K2 to her death by hurricane-force winds, only an hour or so after she had completed an incredible feat. At 33, she had climbed the ...
Years before she died on the descent from K2, famed mountaineer Alison Hargreaves climbed the soaring, glacier-studded Eiger with her son Tom in her womb. That would arguably be his first climb, made ...
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