Scott Fischer

Quick Facts

Full Name	Scott Fischer
Occupation	Mountain Climber
Date Of Birth	Dec 24, 1955(1955-12-24)
Age	69
Date Of Death	May 11, 1996, Mount Everest
Birthplace	Michigan
Country	United States
Birth City	Michigan
Horoscope	Capricorn

Scott Fischer Biography

Scott Fischer is one of the most popular and richest Mountain Climber who was born on December 24, 1955 in Michigan, Michigan, United States. Former mountain climber known for being the first American to climb K2 without extra oxygen as well as the first American to climb Lohtse. He died in 1996 while descending Mount Everest.

He and Rienhold Messner both climbed Mount Kilimanjaro’s Breach Icicle.

Fischer was the son of Shirley and Gene Fischer, and was of German, Dutch, and Hungarian ancestry. He spent his early life in Michigan and New Jersey. After watching a TV documentary in 1970 in his home in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, New Jersey about the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) with his father, he headed to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming for the summer. While attending Ridge High School, from which he graduated in 1973, he spent his summers in the mountains with NOLS, eventually becoming a full-time senior NOLS instructor.

In 1977, Fischer attended an ice climbing seminar by Jeff Lowe in Utah. A group of climbers scaled the frozen Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon. During the climb Fischer began to climb solo on the near vertical ice formation when his ice axe broke leaving him stranded. The others managed to get him a new axe but when he began ascending again the tool now popped out and he fell hundreds of feet. He survived, but injured his foot with his ice axe as he fell.

He was survived by his wife Jeannie, who he married in 1981, and children Andy and Katie.

Scott Fischer Net Worth

Scott Fischer is one of the richest Mountain Climber from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Scott Fischer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started climbing with the National Outdoor Leadership School while in high school.

He helped found the company Mountain Madness. His story was featured in the 1997 TV movie Into Thin Air: Death on Everest and the 2015 feature film Everest.

Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide. He was renowned for his ascents of the world’s highest mountains made without the use of supplemental oxygen. Fischer and Wally Berg were the first Americans to summit Lhotse (27,940 feet / 8516 m), the world’s fourth highest peak. Fischer, Charley Mace, and Ed Viesturs summitted K2 (28,251 feet/ 8611m) without supplemental oxygen. Fischer first climbed Mount Everest (29,029 feet / 8,848 m) in 1994 and later died during the 1996 blizzard on Everest while descending from the peak.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Scott Fischer Dating?

According to our records, Scott Fischer married to Jeannie Price. As of December 1, 2023, Scott Fischer’s is not dating anyone.

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Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa died in an avalanche in autumn 1996 also on an expedition to Everest, and Boukreev died in December 1997 in an avalanche on an expedition to Annapurna. Fischer’s climbing firm Mountain Madness was bought in 1997 by Keith and Christine Boskoff.

Facts & Trivia

Scott Ranked on the list of most popular Mountain Climber. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Scott Fischer celebrates birthday on December 24 of every year.

Has Scott Fischer been found?

The climbers had been forced to bivouac. A team of sherpas went back up Saturday and at the 27,000-foot level found Fischer and Makalu Gao , leader of a Taiwanese group that had lost another climber in a fall Thursday. The rescuers managed to revive Gao, but Fischer was barely breathing, in a deep coma.

Is Scott Fischer dead?

May 11, 1996

What is Scott Fischer's condition at the summit?

During his expedition to the summit of Everest in spring of 1996, Fischer begins to suffer from serious fatigue , in part because his guide, Anatoli Boukreev, isn’t doing his job effectively. On the afternoon of May 10, Fischer’s weeks of fatigue catch up with him, and in the thin air he become delirious.

Who was on Scott Fischer's team?

Beidleman, Pittman, Fox, Madsen, Gammelgaard, and Klev Schoening , a climber from Seattle, were all part of Fischer’s team. (Another member, Martin Adams, had left the summit earlier.) Yasuko Namba, a 95-pound Japanese climber, had collapsed by the ropes, and Beidleman pulled her to the bottom.

Is Scott Fischer's body on Everest?

In fact, Scott Fischer’s is one of around 200 bodies that still remain on Mt Everest , many of them with grimly fascinating stories to tell.