Daniel Mazur

Dan Mazur is a contemporary mountain climber most widely known for leading Greg Mortensons 1993 K2 expedition in Three Cups of Tea and for the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber on Mount Everest on May 25, 2006. Lincoln Hall had been left for dead by another expedition team the previous day at around 8600 meters on Everest after collapsing and failing to respond to treatment on the descent from the summit. Mazur and his fellow climbers Andrew Brash , Myles Osborne and Jangbu Sherpa in abandoning their own attempt on the summit in order to save Halls life epitomised the noblest traditions of mountaineering, underscored by the death of British climber David Sharp, a few days earlier.

Daniel Lee Mazur was born onOctober 1960 in Illinois. His family came from Zotw, Poland, and Bristol, England, where his ancestor Humphrey Hooke was a Merchant Venturer and Alderman during the 16th century. As a boy he spent his summers exploring the wilderness waterways of Canada by canoe with a YMCA group. Each summer the family would load the Ford station wagon with the kids and the dog and visit the national parks for a two week camping trip. He was an active Boy Scout for many years and was taught to ski by his father Robert. At agehis mother Mary started bringing Chinese students home to live in the house, so he learned his first words of Chinese around the dinner table and while doing chores. He first tasted the high peaks at age 17, while a student at the University of Montana, climbing Gunsight Peak and the Sperry Glacier in Glacier National Park.

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