EverestHistory.com:  Charlotte Fox

Charlotte Fox was born in 1957 in Greensboro, NC. She has a long and impressive climbing resume which includes being the first American women to summit three 8000m peaks. However, she reached celebrity status in 1996 after summiting Mount Everest on May 10. Eight people died that day during a horrific storm on the mountain. Charlotte survived the descent but her expedition leader, Scott Fisher did not. The storm and the experience of those involved became a media topic, bringing Everest into dinner conversations around the world.

Charlotte has reached mountain peaks around the world as well as in her own backyard. In Asia, in addition to having climbed Everest, she has climbed Cho Oyu, and was the first American woman to reach the summit of Gasherbrum II. In South America Charlotte has climbed Aconcagua, Hauscaran and Chopicalqui, along with several 18,000ft peaks throughout Peru. She has climbed Mt. Vinson in Antarctica, Kilimanjaro, Mont Blanc, and made many alpine ice routes in the Canadian Rockies. In America she has climbed the West Rib on Denali, Mt Rainer and all of Colorado’s “14ers”.

For over two decades Charlotte has worked as a professional Ski Patrol and as an Emergency Medical Technician. It is no surprise that she has also made many mountaineering ski descents in North America and Europe. After her 1996 experience, Charlotte spoke publicly about the events on Everest in order to raise money for the Access Fund. She has sat on the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization; the mission of the Access Fund revolves around keeping climbers involved in keeping America’s climbing resources open.

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