Alison Jane Hargreaves - British mountain climber

"Alison Jane Hargreaves 1962 - 1995 was a British mountain climber. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995. She soloed all the great north faces of the Alps in a single season-a first for any climber. This feat included climbing the difficult north face of the Eiger in the Alps, in 1988. Hargreaves also climbed 6, 812-metre (22, 349 ft) Ama Dablam in Nepal. In 1995, Hargreaves intended to climb the three highest mountains in the world-Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga-unaided. On 13 May 1995, she reached the summit of Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen; on 13 August, she died while descending from the summit of K2"

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