Marty hoey climber machine

Marty, 31 at the time of her death, was a tenured RMI guide attempting to become the first American woman to summit Everest.

  • Marty Hoey, a skilled woman climber, was a member of the 1982 American expedition.
  • According to reports, Hoey did not correctly fasten her climbing harness and died as the expedition reached its No. 6 advance camp at 26,600.
  • The only noticeable change at Base Camp from our previous visit was the presence of three more memorial cairns alongside the one we had built for Marty Hoey.
  • Suddenly, a climbing harness failed and Marty Hoey, who sought to be the first American woman to the top, fell.

    • According to reports, Hoey did not correctly fasten her climbing harness and died as the expedition reached its No. 6 advance camp at 26,600....

    Marty Hoey

    American mountaineer

    Marty Hoey ( – May 15, ) was a mountaineer and mountain guide who took part in a expedition to Mount Everest.

    During an attempted ascent that would have made her the first American woman to summit Everest, she plunged over the edge of the Great Couloir to her death, as the result of an unsecured climbing harness. She had scaled Washington's Mount Rainier over times, and led expeditions on Alaska's Denali.[1][2]

    Climbing career

    For more than ten years, Hoey worked as a professional guide on Mount Rainier and on Mount McKinley, and she also climbed on more distant ranges.[2] Hoey climbed Pik Lenin in and was a part of the Nanda Devi expedition.[2]

    Hoey also worked for Dick Bass, as safety patrol chief at the Snowbird ski resort.[3] She befriended him and accompanied him on his own successful ascent of Mount McKinley, and he was a member of her climbing group when she perished on Mount Everest,