Jon Johnston Passes

[Dave Frederickson]

(04-27-2016 10:54 PM)Katie Wasserman Wrote:  He wrote in his blog about a disastrous attempt to climb in 2014 where many people were killed.

Again, last year:

For the second consecutive year, I went to Nepal to climb Mt Everest and take an original HP-35 calculator to the summit (with rebuilt battery pack including lithium-ion batteries to withstand the -30C to -40C summit day temperatures). Again, the expedition ended in tragedy. 20 people were killed on April 25 when an avalanche triggered by an earthquake swept across the center of base camp. My climbing team was on a vertical ladder near the top of the icefall when the earthquake struck. A massive avalanche off the Everest horseshoe glacier passed us by only 10m to our left.




May he rest in peace.