Norman Dyhrenfurth dies at 99; led famed 1963 Everest expedition and turned the world on to mountaineering
(LA Times MLB)

Norman Dyhrenfurth, a Swiss American mountaineer and filmmaker who organized the famed 1963 American expedition to Mt. Everest that put six climbers on the summit, has died. He was 99. Ditta Vogt, the sister of Dyhrenfuhth`s longtime partner, Maria Sernetz, said he died Sunday in a Salzburg, Austria,...