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Yuri Uteshev

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Yuri Uteshev
Born1955
NationalityRussian
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

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  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."[permanent dead link]