Yuri Uteshev

Yuri Uteshev
Born12 January 1955
DiedAugust 13, 2006(2006-08-13) (aged 51)
OccupationMountaineer

Yuri Uteshev (January 12, 1955 — August 13, 2006) was a Russian mountain climber, who ascended Dhaulagiri in 1995, Makalu in 1996, Lhotse in 1997 and Mount Everest in 2001.[1]

He died in an avalanche on the Karakoram mountain K2, where he led a team of four from Kuzbass.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "January 2004 news" Archived January 9, 2005, at the Wayback Machine, from the "Mountaineering World of Russia and CIS
  2. ↑ "K2 Tragedy: Siberian climbers are missing in avalanche."
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