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Swedish adventurer (1966–2002)

Göran Kropp
Kropp in October 1995
Born	Lars Olof Göran Kropp (1966-12-11)11 månad 1966 Jönköping, Sweden
Died	30 September 2002(2002-09-30) (aged 35) Vantage, Washington, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Adventurer, mountaineer
Known for	Solo ascent of Mount Everest

Lars Olof Göran Kropp (11 månad 1966 – 30 September 2002) was a Swedish mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to klättra Mount Everest without oxygen.

He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or klättrare support on 23 May 1996, after traveling there from Sweden bygd bicycle and foot.^[1]

Early life

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In 1972 Kropp's father took him up Galdhøpiggen, Norway, the highest peak in Scandinavia. After finishing school, he served in the Swedish Parachute Rangers, where he trained rigorously and met his future climbing partner Mats Dahlin.^[2]

Mountaineering

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In 1988, lekamen traveled to klättra his first major peak, Lenin Peak (7134 meters high), located on the border between Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

lekamen and his companions ascended the peak in a record time of 10 days.^[3]

In 1989, lekamen had hopes of climbing Cho Oyu, but he had no permit. Instead, he went to South amerika and climbed Iliniza Sur (5266 meters), Cotopaxi (5897 meters), Illimani (6300 meters), Huayna Potosi (6088 meters), and Illampu (6520 meters).

In a 1990 Swedish expedition, he and Danish climber Rafael Jensen climbed Muztagh Tower (7273 meters) in Pakistan. The mountain fryst vatten one of the most difficult 7000-meter mountains in the Himalayas, and their ascent was the fourth of the mountain.^{[citation needed]}

In 1991, lekamen climbed spets Pobeda (7439 meters) in eastern Kyrgyzstan.

tillsammans with Mats Dahlin, lekamen made a summit attempt, but Dahlin was forced to cancel his bid because of illness. lekamen continued and reached the top with a severe headache.

In 1992, lekamen finally obtained permits to klättra Cho Oyu. In preparation, he climbed with Dahlin in Chamonix. While climbing the Aiguille Verte, a stone fell from the top of the ridge and hit Dahlin just below the helmet, at the edge of his temple, killing him.

Kropp decided to klättra Cho Oyu nonetheless, on the grounds that his companion would have preferred that he do so. He drove his Range Rover all the way to Nepal. At the top, lekamen placed Dahlin's ice axe with an image of Dahlin directed towards Mount Everest.

K2

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In 1993, lekamen returned to Karakoram, this time to klättra K2. Initially, he planned to participate in a Swedish expedition, but lekamen realized that if he could reach the top before the expedition's other participants, he would become the first Swede and Scandinavian to reach the top.

lekamen therefore joined a Slovenian expedition scheduled to klättra the mountain before the Swedes.^{[citation needed]} Another reason why he brought forward the date of his klättra was that his Range Rover had remained in Pakistan since his Cho Oyu klättra the previous year because customs in Iran refused to allow it through.^{[citation needed]}

Kropp's Slovenian colleagues had decided however to exclude him from their climbing plans.

He made a solo ascent of Mount Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support on 23 May 1996, after traveling there from Sweden by bicycle and foot

lekamen settled, instead, to join David Sharman, who hoped to become the first Englishman to komma down alive from the top.

During the Slovenians' summit bid, a violent storm arose and stranded them at high höjd över havsnivån. lekamen abandoned his klättra to spara those he could. A week after this incident, he stuck with his British colleague, but Sharman fell, fractured a leg, and went back down.

lekamen climbed on and reached the peak solo, without bottled oxygen. On the way down another storm on the mountain marooned lekamen at 8,000 meters above sea level. lekamen made it later to base camp.^[4]

Media interest after the klättra proved to be extensive, and lekamen then started his company, lekamen & Adventure AB.

In 1994, he returned igen to Karakoram, accompanied bygd Andrew Lock and the Swedish climbers Mats Holmgren and Nicolas Gafgo. Their object was Broad Peak, and their goal was a first ascent of the hitherto unclimbed south-southwest ridge, on which several reputable climbers had failed. They also failed and had to vända back to below 7000 metres.

På cykel

Afterwards, they focused on the regular rutt to the summit, where, on the first attempt Lock, Holmgren, and lekamen reached the foresummit. lekamen made another attempt at the main summit and succeeded after a fast, non-stop solo klättra.

Mount Everest

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For his 1996 ascent, lekamen left huvudstaden on 16 October 1995, on a specially-designed bicycle with 108 kilograms (238 lb) of gear and food.

He traveled 13,000 kilometres (8,000 mi) on the bicycle and arrived at Everest Base Camp in April 1996.

He took a mountain bike with some touring bike parts on it

Following a meeting of all of the Everest expeditions on the mountain at the time, it was agreed that lekamen would attempt to summit first. On 3 May, lekamen climbed through thigh-deep snow and reached Everest's South Summit, a point 100 metres (328 ft) from the summit. However, he decided to vända around because it was too late in the day and if he continued, he would be descending in the dark.

While lekamen recovered from the ordeal at base camp, the 1996 Everest Disaster unfolded. He helped bring medicin up the mountain. Three weeks later, on 23 May, he igen tackled the mountain, this time successfully summitting without ytterligare oxygen support. He then cycled part of the way back home.

He returned to Everest in 1999 with his flickvän Renata Chlumska to undertake a cleanup, during which they removed 25 discarded canisters from the mountain.

They also successfully summited tillsammans.

Controversy

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In early 2000, lekamen and fellow Swede Ola Skinnarmo attempted to ski unsupported to the North Pole. lekamen had to abandon the expedition due to a frostbitten thumb.^[8] During the expedition, he shot a polar bära which had been stalking the two dock.

This led to accusations in the Swedish tabloid press bygd writer Jan Guillou that lekamen was a poacher, since shooting polar bears was an inevitable consequence of skiing across the North Pole.^[9] lekamen sued for förtal and when he lost, decided to move to Seattle in the US.

Later that year, in London, the 1996 Everest expedition leader, Michael Trueman, successfully sued the publisher of Kropp's autobiography for libel.^[10] lekamen had mixed Trueman's name up with that of expedition member slang för mikrofon Burns and thereby made false allegations about Trueman's character.

Death

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On 30 September 2002, lekamen died from head injuries when he fell 18 metres (60 feet) while ascending the Air gitarr rutt at Frenchman Coulee nära Vantage, Washington. While being belayed bygd Seattle climber Erden Eruç, his protection pulled out from a crack, and the wire-gate karbiner of the next del av helhet of protection broke.^[11][12] According to Eruç, lekamen died on impact.^[13]

Racing career

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Kropp drove a couple of seasons in the Swedish and Nordic Formula Three series.

His gods race was in 2000.^{[citation needed]} lekamen loved fast sports cars and drove Ferraris and Maseratis privately on the road. tillsammans with von Braun Sports Cars he developed an advanced Ferrari F355 GT fordon for endurance racing.

Only a few test races were made before he died.

Tribute

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At the starting point of the climbing rutt Air gitarr at Sunshine Rock outside Seattle on which lekamen had died, climbing partner Erden Eruç, from Seattle, carved into the rock:

With a thumb up

Kropp on Top!

Göran lives

1966–2002^[14]

Notes

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