Word: breitenbach
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still, Khumbu is a frozen cataract, gashed by echoing crevasses and crisscrossed with cliffs that cannot be scaled. As the men struggled upward, cracks opened and little avalanches plunged down the slopes. On March 23, disaster struck: without warning, an ice wall collapsed and buried Wyoming's John Breitenbach, 27, as he was working to improve the trail. Breitenbach was the first American ever killed scaling Everest...
Died. John Edgar Breitenbach, 27, proprietor of a Wyoming mountaineering equipment store and member of a 20-man U.S. expedition sponsored by the National Geographic Society and several others, now climbing Mount Everest; when an ice wall collapsed and buried him as he worked to improve an ice route cut the previous day on Khumbu Glacier at 17,500 feet. He was the first American to die while trying to climb the world's highest mountain...