Alison Hargreaves

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Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountaineer and alpinist. Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest in 1995 solo and without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team. She solo climbed all of the great north faces of the Alps in a single season—a first for any climber. This feat included climbing the north face of the Eiger in the Alps. Hargreaves also climbed 6,812-metre (22,349 ft) Ama Dablam in Nepal. In 1995, Hargreaves intended to climb the three highest mountains in the world—Mount Everest, K2, and Kangchenjunga—unaided. On 13 May 1995, she became the first woman to reach summit of Everest without the aid of Sherpas or bottled oxygen; on 13 August, she died while descending from the summit of K2.

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