Scott Fischer

1955–1996 (age 41)

Biography

Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide. He was renowned for ascending the world's highest mountains without supplemental oxygen. Fischer and Wally Berg were the first Americans to summit Lhotse (8,516 metres (27,940 ft)), the world's fourth highest peak. Fischer, Charley Mace, and Ed Viesturs summitted K2 (8,611 metres (28,251 ft)) without supplemental oxygen. Fischer first climbed Mount Everest (8,848.86 m (29,031 ft 8 in)) in 1994 and later died during the 1996 blizzard on Everest while descending from the peak.

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