Anatoli Boukreev
1958 – 1997 Kazakhstan
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Who was Anatoli Boukreev?
Russian mountaineer and high-altitude climbing guide who summited Mount Everest multiple times without supplemental oxygen. He died in an avalanche on Annapurna in 1997 and wrote about the controversial 1996 Everest disaster.
Biographical data adapted from Wikipedia’s article on Anatoli Boukreev (CC BY-SA 4.0).