Daniel Mazur, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Daniel Mazur

American mountain climber

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1960

Place of Birth: Illinois, United States

Profession: screenwriter, mountaineer

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Daniel Mazur

  • Dan Mazur is a mountain climber, expedition leader and tour organizer who specializes in the Himalayan region.
  • He is also the founder and director of the Mountain Everest Foundation for Sustainable Development, which runs projects designed to improve health care, education, cultural preservation, and natural conservation on behalf of mountain communities and ecosystems..
  • Dan's recent successful expeditions include Everest Nepal, Everest Tibet, K2, and Broad Peak.
  • Not only has Dan climbed 9 of our world's 8000 metre / 26,000 foot high peaks, but he has also been involved in rescues of fellow climbers from high altitudes.
  • For his services to mountaineering, to mountain peoples and environments, Mazur received the Sir Edmund Hillary Mountain Legacy Medal on December 11, 2018 (International Mountain Day), in Pokhara, Nepal.
  • Dan Mazur has been involved in mountain rescues: During the 2018 Broad Peak Expedition, Dan and his team rescued Rick Allen, a British climber who disappeared at night near the summit and whose team mates reported him dead and descended with Rick's satellite phone.
  • Dan and team found Rick Allen alive and brought him down to base camp 3 days later www.KarakoramNews.com .
  • Dan is known for the rescue of Lincoln Hall, an Australian climber on Mount Everest.
  • 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 (Canada), Myles Osborne (UK) and Jangbu Sherpa (Nepal) - in abandoning their own attempt on the summit in order to save Hall's life, epitomized the noblest traditions of mountaineering, underscored by the death of British climber; David Sharp, who had been abandoned by his team a few days earlier www.LincolnHallTribute.org .
  • A 1 hour NBC television documentary tells the story.
  • On K2, Dan Mazur and his team worked together to rescue Gary Ball from 8300 metres.
  • Gary was struck down by a pulmonary embolism.
  • The rescue took several days, descending technical ground, and rescuers included Rob Hall, Scott Fischer, Ed Viesturs, Neal Beidleman and Jon Pratt https://www.explorersweb.com/everest_k2/news.php?id=3300 . Dan Mazur has been working in communities and environments in the Nepal Himalayan region with Jangbu Sherpa and the Mount Everest Foundation for Sustainable Development.
  • Ongoing involvement with Garry Porter and Engineers Without Borders to build a waste treatment plant at Everest Basecamp, the Mount Everest Biogas Project, which during 2018 is featured on CNN and, thanks to Tana Rill, in 2018 was awarded the UIAA Mountain Protection Award .
  • Dan researches Everest biogas together with Dr.
  • Bed Mani Dahal of Kathmandu University and Dr.
  • Mike Marsolek of Seattle University and their current project to study methane production from Everest base camp human waste begins on 22 August, 2018 www.CleaningUpMountEverest.org .
  • Together with Mingma Sherpa, Marcia Macdonald, and the www.DebocheProject.org , Dan is rebuilding the Everest Region's oldest convent, destroyed in the 2015 earthquake.
  • With the aid of Architects Without Borders and Laura Rose, the project will complete in 2018.
  • Dan is also involved on a daily basis with www.SherpaTrainingSchool.org , which brings donated climbing gear to aspiring Sherpas, and thanks to Glenn and Camille Nyberg, coming to Nepal in December 2018, rebuilding the Patale Health Post and Primary School, which were destroyed in the 2015 earthquake and serve 400 Sherpa families in remote Nepal .
  • Each year Dan leads and organizes groups of volunteers to visit, bring supplies, medicines, health care and education to www.RemoteNepalServiceTrek.org Dan Mazur presents his award winning slide video show live during 4-15 February 2018.
  • Venues are needed.
  • Please contact Dan if you know of anyone who would like to host an exciting mountain climbing and exploration program in aid of the Mount Everest Foundation: www.MountainTalks.org Dan Mazur gives back to the mountaineering community each year by offering free of cost, no charge glacier schools.
  • Mazur has offered these free schools for 10 years, in order to welcome new participants into the sport of mountaineering.
  • The next free glacier school takes place 22-29 September 2018, followed by 1-7 January 2019 www.CascadeGlacierSchool.org .

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