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Cathy O'Dowd is a South African rock-climber, mountaineer, author and motivational speaker, famous for being the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest from both south (25 May 1996) and north sides (29 May 1999). [1] [2] Media:Example. ...
Cathy O’Dowd, born in 1969, who grew up in Johannesburg, South Africa, has climbed since her university days. At 21 she took part in her first mountain expedition, to the Ruwenzori in central Africa. [3] Towards the end of 1995, she was finishing a Masters degree in Media Studies at Rhodes University when she applied for a place on the First South African Everest Expedition, and was selected to join the expedition. The team followed the route made famous by Edmund Hillary. Despite being the novice on the team, she reached the summit on 25 May 1996. It was, however, a harsh introduction, as 37 year-old British team-member and photographer Bruce Herrod died on the descent. [4] [5] Two weeks earlier 6 members of a large party, as well as their guides American Scott Fischer and the New Zealander Rob Hall, had succumbed to the intense cold of a severe blizzard on their descent from the summit. [6] [7] City motto: Unity in Development Province Gauteng Mayor Amos Masondo Area - % water 1,644 km² 0. ...
The Ruwenzori Range is a small mountain range of central Africa, often referred to as Mt. ...
Rhodes University is one of South Africas oldest and most famous university institutions. ...
Sir Edmund Hillary in 1957 after accompanying the first plane to land at the Marble Point ground air strip - Antarctica Sir Edmund Percival Hillary, KG, ONZ, KBE (born 20 July 1919) is a New Zealand mountaineer and explorer. ...
Scott Fischer (1956 – May 11, 1996) was an American climber and guide. ...
Rob Hall (1961-1996), New Zealander, was a mountaineer best known for being head guide of a 1996 Mount Everest expedition in which he, a fellow guide, and two clients perished. ...
In 1998 she attempted the difficult north side of Everest, where George Mallory had disappeared in 1924. Her attempt ended hours from the summit when she stopped to aid and comfort Francys 'Fran' Arsentiev, a dying American woman. [8] [9] In 1999 she returned, and on this occasion succeeded, becoming the first woman in the world to climb Everest from both north and south sides. In 2000 she became the fourth woman to climb Lhotse, the world's fourth highest mountain. [10] George Herbert Leigh Mallory (June 18, 1886–June 1924) was a British mountaineer. ...
Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. ...
In 2003 she made a bold but unsuccessful attempt at a new route up the notorious east face of Everest. In the spring of 2004 she joined British woman Rona Cant and Norwegian Per-Thore-Hansen on a dog-sled expedition of 650km through the remote wastes of the Norwegian Arctic, from Styggedalen to Nordkapp, the most northerly point in Europe. [11] In the summer of 2005 she tackled the technically demanding buttresses of Yosemite National Park. County Finnmark District Municipality NO-2019 Administrative centre Honningsvåg Mayor (2005) Ulf Syversen (Ap) Official language form Neutral Area - Total - Land - Percentage Ranked 119 925 km² 891 km² 0. ...
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Cathy O'Dowd has climbed mountains across southern and central Africa, in South America, in the Alps and in the Himalaya. She remains an active mountaineer, rock-climber and skier. The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ...
Perspective view of the Himalaya and Mount Everest as seen from space looking south-south-east from over the Tibetan Plateau. ...
She married the First South African Everest Expedition leader Ian Woodall in 2001 and is currently living in Andorra in the Pyrenees. [12] Central Pyrenees. ...
Books - Everest: Free To Decide - Cathy O'Dowd & Ian Woodall (Struik Publishers 1998) ISBN 1868721019
- Just for the love of it - Cathy O'Dowd (Free To Decide Publishers 2001) ISBN 0620247827
External links
References - ^ http://www.econ-referentenagentur.de/index.php?id=373&name=O'Dowd&vorname=Cathy
- ^ http://www.everestnews.com/history/women.htm
- ^ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/campaigns/everest/everestprofiles.xml
- ^ http://outside.away.com/outside/features/200309/200309_survivors_6.html
- ^ http://www.trekinfo.com/news/news7b.html
- ^ http://outside.away.com/outside/destinations/199609/199609_into_thin_air_1.html
- ^ http://classic.mountainzone.com/climbing/fischer/letters.html
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,3963348,00.html
- ^ http://www.cindyloudale.com/cathyodowd.htm
- ^ http://www.econ-referentenagentur.de/index.php?id=373&name=O'Dowd&vorname=Cathy
- ^ http://www.ronacant.com/archive/nordkapp/The%20Team%20-%20Nordkapp%202004.htm
- ^ http://www.dispatch.co.za/2001/11/27/easterncape/ANINE.HTM
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