EverestHistory.com: Felix Iñurrategui

Basque climber, Felix Iñurrategi was on a quest to climb all fourteen of the world’s 8000m peaks when his life came to a tragic end. While descending from the summit of Gasherbrum II in Karakorum, he fell from 6500m when his old climbing rope snapped. He was climbing with his older brother Alberto at the time of his death, the brothers had reached the summit of twelve 8000m peaks together.

The two brothers grew up climbing together in the Pyrenees and Alps, by the time they were in their twenties they had become common names throughout the climbing community. Most notably for the fast rate they were climbing 8000m peaks without the aid of bottled oxygen. Felix began the journey to the top of the world’s highest peaks in 1991 when he and Alberto reached the summit of Makalu. They climbed Everest in 1992; K2 in 1994 and in September of 1995 climbed both Cho Oyu and Lhotse. In 1996 they climbed Kangchenjunga and Shisha Panga, Broad Peak in 1997, Dhaulagiri in 1998 and Nanga Parbat in 1999. They climbed Manaslu in April of 2000 before they set off for Gasherbrum II.

Though Alberto disappeared from the climbing community after his brother’s death, a year later he reached the summit of Gasherbrum I. At the top it was Felix’s ice axe he was leaning on. Alberto finished the quest the two had set out on in May of 2002 when he reached the summit of Annapurna. In 2004 Alberto won the Grand Prize ate the Kendal Mountain Film Festival in the UK. His film was a tribute to Felix entitled, ‘Hire Himalaya’ (Your Himalaya).

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