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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (45615)2/24/2006 1:04:32 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 90947
 
It was Lou Whittaker, and the fatality was Willy Unsoeld. I mistakenly remembered that it was Whittaker. He's the one who gave the speech I read about, and shortly after Unsoeld died. classic.mountainzone.com

I lost my best friend, Willi Unsoeld, an Everest climber, on Mount Rainier in an avalanche [March 4, 1979].