Kim Chang-ho (climber), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Kim Chang-ho (climber)

South Korean climber

Date of Birth: 15-Sep-1969

Place of Birth: Yecheon County, North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea

Date of Death: 13-Oct-2018

Profession: mountaineer

Nationality: South Korea

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Kim Chang-ho (Korean: ???) was a South Korean mountain climber.
Kim began climbing after reading about Alexander the Great's exploits.In 2012, he won the Piolets d'or Asia award with An Chi-young when they made the first ever ascent of Himjung (7,092m) in Nepal; the British Mountaineering Council noted that, "Kim also made the first ascent of 7,762m Batura II.
Together with Batura I West (7,775m), which remains virgin, Batura II was one of the highest unclimbed named summits in the Karakoram (and indeed Asia)".In 2013, he became the first Korean to climb all of the world's 14 mountains over 8,000 metres without using supplementary oxygen; in doing so he also set the record for completing the feat in the shortest time.
His new world record of seven years, 10 months and six days was over a month quicker than the previous one, held by Jerzy Kukuczka of Poland.
Unusually, Kim used an "eco-friendly" approach, taking 60 days to reach the Mount Everest base camp using "kayak, bicycle and foot" rather than flying to Lukla.He was killed, along with several others including fellow South Korean climbers and local mountain guides, in Nepal in October, 2018, when a snowstorm destroyed the 3500m-altitude base camp beneath Mount Gurja in the Dhaulagiri.