Greg Mortimer
Australian mountaineer (born 1952) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the climber. For the cruise ship named after him, see Greg Mortimer (ship).
Greg Mortimer OAM (born 10 December 1952) is an Australian climber.[1] Mortimer is notable as one of the first two Australians (with Tim Macartney-Snape) to successfully climb Mount Everest, on 3 October 1984.[2] Their ascent, without supplemental oxygen,[3] was the first via the North Face and Norton Couloir. It is one of the climbing routes that has not been repeated often.[4]
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Nationality | Australian |
Born | (1952-12-10) 10 December 1952 (age 71) Sydney, New South Wales, Australia |
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Type of climber | Mountaineer |
First ascents | Mount Everest, Nepal by a new route (1984), Mount Minto, Antarctica (1988), many first Australian ascents of major peaks. |
Major ascents | Annapurna II (1983), Mount Everest (1984), K2 (1990), Manaslu (2002), |
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