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Italian mountaineer Maria Merelli died Wednesday in a fall from Pizzo Redorta in the Alps, colleagues said...Merell -- known as an "8,000er" because he was one of the few climbers to climb 10 peaks topping 8,000 meters -- climbed Mount Everest twice
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Top mountaineer Mario Merelli died during a climb Wednesday when he fell in the Alps in the province of Bergamo. A helicopter crew retrieved the body of the Italian climber, 49, who joined the elite of world climbing by scaling Everest with three
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Switzerland climber Erhard Loretan, 52, was the third man to climb all 14 mountains over 8,000 metres...Photograph: Keystone/Corbis When Erhard Loretan, Switzerland 's greatest Himalayan climber, fell to his death in April, the irony seemed obvious.
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When Erhard Loretan and his fellow Swiss climber Jean Triollet reached their advance base camp at 5,850m on the Rongbuk glacier, Tibet, late on 30 August 1986 they had set a new standard in extreme alpinism to the summit of Everest (8,850m) and back
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Kim Ricketts, 53, of Seattle, who turned her love for books into a business connecting authors and readers in creative and enjoyable ways, such as cocktail parties, events on corporate campuses and her popular "Cooks and Books" series at local
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Swiss police said yesterday that Mr Loretan died leading a client up the summit ridge of the Grunhorn, in the Bernese Alps...The pair had skied up part of the way, then roped up for the final ascent. They then both fell for unknown reasons, about 12,
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Renowned Swiss climber Erhard Loretan has died in a climbing accident in the Swiss Alps on his 52nd birthday. Swiss police say Loretan was leading a client up the summit ridge of the Gruenhorn, in the Bernese Alps, on Thursday afternoon
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Famous Swiss climber Erhard Loretan dies in a climbing accident in Swiss Alps . When he died , it was his 52nd birthday . According to Swiss police Loretan was leading a Swiss client to the top of the summit ridge
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Famed Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan, one of the few to ever reach the summits of all 14 of the world's peaks above 8,000 meters, has died in a climbing fall on his 52nd birthday. Swiss police said Friday that Loretan died
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