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March 17, 2024, 3:08 a.m. ET
David Breashears, a mountaineer, writer and filmmaker who co-directed and co-produced a 1998 IMAX documentary about climbing Mount Everest, has died, his enterprise supervisor confirmed Saturday.
He was 68.
Breashears was discovered unresponsive at his dwelling in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on Thursday, Ellen Golbranson mentioned.
David Breashears whereas filming the IMAX documentary about climbing Mount Everest in 1996. AP
She mentioned he died of pure causes however “the precise explanation for dying stays unknown at the moment.”
Breashears summited Mount Everest 5 occasions, together with with the IMAX digital camera in 1996, his household mentioned.
“He mixed his ardour for climbing and images to turn out to be one of many world’s most admired journey filmmakers,” the household mentioned in a written assertion.
In 2007, Breashears based GlacierWorks, which describes itself on Fb as a nonprofit group that “highlights modifications to Himalayan glaciers by artwork, science, and journey.”
“With GlacierWorks, he used his climbing and images expertise to create distinctive data revealing the dramatic results of local weather change on the historic mountain vary,” his household mentioned.
Breashears sits exterior his tent at Everest Base Camp.
In 1983, Breashears transmitted the primary dwell tv footage from the summit of Everest, in line with his web site, which additionally says that in 1985 he grew to become the primary US citizen to succeed in the summit twice.
Breashears and his crew had been filming the Everest documentary when the Could 10, 1996, blizzard struck the mountain, killing eight climbers.
He and his crew stopped filming to assist the climbers.
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