MARBLEHEAD, Mass. (AP) — David Breashears, a mountaineer, writer and filmmaker who co-directed and co-produced a 1998 IMAX documentary about climbing Mount Everest, has died, his enterprise supervisor confirmed Saturday. He was 68.
Breashears was discovered unresponsive at his residence in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on Thursday, Ellen Golbranson stated. She stated he died of pure causes however “the precise reason behind dying stays unknown right now.”
Breashears summited Mount Everest 5 occasions, together with with the IMAX digital camera in 1996, his household stated.
“He mixed his ardour for climbing and pictures to turn into one of many world’s most admired journey filmmakers,” the household stated in a written assertion.
In 2007, Breashears based GlacierWorks, which describes itself on Fb as a nonprofit group that “highlights modifications to Himalayan glaciers via artwork, science, and journey.”
“With GlacierWorks, he used his climbing and pictures expertise to create distinctive data revealing the dramatic results of local weather change on the historic mountain vary,” his household stated.
In 1983, Breashears transmitted the primary reside tv footage from the summit of Everest, in response to his web site, which additionally says that in 1985 he turned the primary U.S. citizen to succeed in the summit twice.
Breashears and his group have been filming the Everest documentary when the Could 10, 1996, blizzard struck the mountain, killing eight climbers. He and his group stopped filming to assist the climbers.
