Kurt Eliot Schmierer
KATHMANDU, DECEMBER 13: AN
AMERICAN MOUNTAINEER, MR. KURT ELIOT SCHMIERER, WAS SLIPPED TO
DEATH WHILE MAKING A BID TO PERCH ON THE TOP OF 6966 METRE
HIGH MT. DORJE LAKPA IN RASUWA DISTRICT, CENTRAL NEPAL ON
DECEMBER 5, POLICE REPORTS REACHING HERE LATELY SAID.
THE DECEASED HAD REPORTEDLY
LOST HIS FOOTING AT AN ALTITUDE OF 6,000 METRES.
DUE TO STRONG WIND, NEPALESE
MINISTRY OF TOURISM AND CIVIL
AVIATION SAID, LATE MR. SCHMIERER'S 7-MEMBER NEPAL-AMERICAN
EXPEDITION TEAM HAVE ABANDONED ITS ATTEMPT TO CLIMB THE
MOUNTAIN.
The Nepal Digest - Dec 15, 1994
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Seattle Times Staff: Seattle Times News Services
KATMANDU, Nepal - A 38-year-old Seattle geologist was killed
when he slipped into a crevasse on a Himalayan peak, and his
body had to be left on the mountain.
Kurt Eliot Schmierer died Dec. 5 on Mount Dorje Lakpa after
high winds forced a joint Nepalese-American expedition to
abandon its attempt to scale the 22,987-foot mountain.
"Schmierer's crampon came off his boot and he slipped," said
fellow team member Gregory Collum, 39, of Seattle.
Dorje
Lapka on left |