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Alison Hargreaves was born on 17 February, 1962 in Derbyshire, England, is a 20th-century British mountain climber. Discover Alison Hargreaves's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 33 years old?

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Age 33 years old
Zodiac Sign Aquarius
Born 17 February 1962
Birthday 17 February
Birthplace Derbyshire, England
Date of death 13 August, 1995
Died Place K2, Pakistan
Nationality United Kingdom

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Her husband is James Ballard (m. ?–1995)

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1962

Alison Jane Hargreaves (17 February 1962 – 13 August 1995) was a British mountaineer.

1993

In 1993, Hargreaves decided to solo climb the six great north faces of the Alps in a single season, and become the first person to do so.

The spring and summer weather were particularly bad that year, and she was forced to use alternative routes for the Grandes Jorasses and the Eiger.

Without pictures to prove her success and with the use of alternative routes, the media and climbing community did not initially approve of her climb.

In order to settle things, Hargreaves solo climbed the Croz spur on the north face of the Grandes Jorasses the following winter.

With pictures taken from a professional photographer, the media and climbing community believed her claim.

1995

Her accomplishments included scaling Mount Everest alone, without supplementary oxygen or support from a Sherpa team, in 1995.

She soloed all the great north faces of the Alps in a single season—a first for any climber.

This feat included climbing the difficult north face of the Eiger in the Alps.

Hargreaves also climbed 6812 m 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.

Hargreaves grew up in Belper, Derbyshire, and attended Belper High School.

After leaving home at 18, she lived with and later married Jim Ballard, and in 1995 the family moved to Spean Bridge, in the Scottish Highlands, closer to conditions suitable for her training.

She was six months pregnant with her first child, Tom, when she climbed the Eiger north face.

Tom Ballard went on to become the first person to solo climb all of the six great north faces of the Alps in a single winter.

In June 1995, Hargreaves joined an American team with a permit to climb 8611 m K2.

By 13 August 1995, the remnants of the US team, along with Hargreaves, had joined forces with a team from Canada and New Zealand at Camp 4, around 7600 m above sea level, and at least 12 hours from the summit.

Later that day, having joined with a Spanish team of mountaineers above Camp 4, New Zealander Peter Hillary, son of Everest pioneer Sir Edmund Hillary, decided to turn back, noting that the weather that had been fine for the previous four days appeared to be changing.

At 6:45 pm, in fine conditions, Hargreaves and Spaniard Javier Olivar reached the summit, followed by American Rob Slater, Spaniards Javier Escartín and Lorenzo Ortíz, and New Zealander Bruce Grant.

All six died in a violent storm while returning from the summit.

Canadian Jeff Lakes, who had turned back below the summit earlier, managed to reach one of the lower camps but died from the effects of exposure.

The next day, two Spanish climbers, Pepe Garces and Lorenzo Ortas, who had survived the storm at Camp 4, were descending the mountain while suffering from frostbite and exhaustion.

Before reaching Camp 3, they found a bloodstained anorak, a climbing boot, and a harness.

They recognised the equipment as belonging to Hargreaves.

From Camp 3 they could also see a body in the distance.

They did not approach the body, so it was not positively identified, but they had little doubt it was Hargreaves and concluded she had been blown off the mountain during the storm.

After the incident, Captain Fawad Khan, the Pakistani army officer who was the team's intermediary with the rescue services, claimed that he had urged her not to climb beyond base camp because it would be "suicidal" in the deteriorating weather conditions.

2019

He died in 2019 while ascending Nanga Parbat.