Tom Hornbein information

Thomas Hornbein (November 6, 1930 – May 6, 2023) was an American mountaineer who made the first ascent of Everest via the west ridge; the Hornbein Couloir...

Expedition, Thomas Hornbein, who was on the first ascent. The first ascent of the couloir was made on 22 May 1963, by Tom Hornbein and his partner, Willi...

Jerstad, Barry Bishop and Tom Hornbein. Whittaker, with Sherpa Nawang Gombu, reached the summit on May 1, 1963. Unsoeld, Hornbein, Bishop and Jerstad reached...

(Nottinghamshire). Hadley Hinds, 76, Barbadian Olympic sprinter (1968). Tom Hornbein, 92, American mountaineer. Derek Keating, 67, Irish politician, TD (2011–2016)...

1993-05-17 Rebecca Stephens  United States 1963-05-22 Willi Unsoeld, Tom Hornbein 1988-09-29 Stacy Allison  Uruguay  Uzbekistan  Vanuatu  Venezuela  Vietnam...

Whittaker 1963 Everest (West Ridge) Norman Dyhrenfurth First Ascent: Tom Hornbein & Willi Unsoeld 1965 Kennedy Jim Whittaker First Ascent: Robert F. Kennedy...

the use of closed-circuit equipment. US Navy doctor and mountaineer Tom Hornbein modified the design of a breathing mask used by Navy pilots which was...

Everest twice; first ascent via the Hornbein Couloir on May 22 by Americans Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld. Hornbein and Unsoeld descended by the South...

first ascent of the West Ridge on May 22 by Americans Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld. Hornbein and Unsoeld descended by the South Col, making the ascent...

suffered. There is also controversy over the manner of Gilkey's death. Tom Hornbein and others have suggested that, realising his rescue was endangering...

V12 (8A+) with Trice. Alex Honnold (born 1985) US, prolific free soloist Tom Hornbein (born 1930) US, first ascent of Everest via the West Ridge (1963) Steve...

1974) (b. 1949) Sam Gross, 89, cartoonist (The New Yorker) (b. 1933) Tom Hornbein, 92, mountaineer (b. 1930) Frank Kozik, 61, artist and graphic designer...

428 ascents of Longs Peak (the most of any person); a feat for which Tom Hornbein dubbed him "Mr. Longs Peak". Detterline was born in Pottsville, Northeastern...

Everest from West Face and first major traverse of a Himalayan peak, with Tom Hornbein 1963. Daughter Nanda Devi Unsoeld killed during Nanda Devi expedition...

The first ascent of the peak was made in 1971 by Richard Emerson and Tom Hornbein via the Southwest Face. They made a chilly bivouac near the summit, which...

successful ascent of Everest in 1963 by Americans Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld via the West Ridge and the Hornbein Couloir was achieved by climbing from the...

included Jake Breitenbach, Jim Whittaker, Willi Unsoeld, Lute Jerstad, Tom Hornbein, Dave Dingman and Barry Bishop. William Siri was the deputy team leader...

tattered." Later that day, they met up with fellow expedition members Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld, who had just completed the first ascent of Everest...

physiology of marine organisms at the University of California, Santa Barbara Tom Hornbein, developed the standard breathing mask after climbing Mt. Everest in...

actor Grant Wood, American painter Jennifer Beals, actress and model Tom Hornbein, mountaineer Libby Schaaf,[citation needed] mayor of Oakland, California...

two of which used the West Ridge Direct route. American mountaineers Tom Hornbein and Willi Unsoeld were forced by the difficult area to partly traverse...

about 1996 Mount Everest disaster Everest, the west ridge Tom Hornbein 1965 about Hornbein Couloir ascent in 1963 Everest - The First Ascent: The Untold...

150 m below the summit. Its companion to the west of the summit is the Hornbein Couloir. The steep couloir (gully) was named after the lead member of the...

Inquirer. May 19, 2007. Retrieved May 24, 2012. Potterfield, Peter; Hornbein, Tom (2003). Everest: Volume 4 of The Mountaineers anthology series (2003 ed...

Pine filmed the romantic comedy This Means War with Reese Witherspoon and Tom Hardy during the fall of 2010 in Vancouver. This Means War was released in...

even a modicum of excess exertion may impair brain function. — Thomas F. Hornbein in The high-altitude brain Reinhold Messner was the first climber to break...