David Breashears, mountaineer and filmmaker who co-produced Mount Everest documentary, dies at 68
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 dwelling in Marblehead, Massachusetts, on Thursday, Ellen Golbranson stated. She stated he died of pure causes however “the precise explanation for dying stays unknown at the moment.”
Breashears summited Mount Everest 5 instances, together with with the IMAX digicam in 1996, his household stated.
“He mixed his ardour for climbing and images 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 by means of artwork, science, and journey.”
“With GlacierWorks, he used his climbing and images expertise to create distinctive information revealing the dramatic results of local weather change on the historic mountain vary,” his household stated.
In 1983, Breashears transmitted the primary dwell tv photos from the summit of Everest, based on his web site, which additionally says that in 1985 he grew to become the primary U.S. citizen to achieve the summit twice.
Breashears and his staff have been filming the Everest documentary when the Might 10, 1996, blizzard struck the mountain, killing eight climbers. He and his staff stopped filming to assist the climbers.
