Fredrik Ericsson

Fredrik Ericsson ( born March 14, 1975 in Sundsvall, † August 6, 2010 on the K2) was a Swedish mountaineers and extreme skiers. He grew up in Umeå, but later spent most of his time in Chamonix.

Life

In summer 2003, Ericsson came to the 7495 m high spades Ismoil Somoni in Tajikistan, in 2004 he succeeded on Shishapangma in Tibet as the first Sweden, the descent on skis from the summit of an eight -thousand-meter. In 2005 he tried together with the Norwegian Jörgen Aamot, the Laila Peak ( 6069 m) drive down what as planned was not possible, but due to poor weather conditions. Instead, they began their descent at an altitude of 5950 m. Thus, they were still the first people who have ever gone down this mountain on skis. In the same year they managed this also on Gasherbrum II, Ericsson's second eight-thousanders.

2007 Ericsson returned back to the Himalayas, where he was on his third eight-thousanders, the 8167 m high Dhaulagiri in Nepal tried. However, due to large amounts of snow and dangerous conditions he had at an altitude of about 8000 meters, turn around and drove down the valley 3000 meters to the base camp.

Ericsson had a preference, in unusual places to ski, as in Sicily or Spitzbergen. He participated in several movies with, such as the documentation Skiing Everest and ski movies Free Radicals 618 and Kong Vinter 3

Death

On 6 August 2010 Ericsson accompanied the Austrian mountaineer Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner on their way to the summit of K2. The extreme skier was planning to sail the three highest mountains in the world, including the K2 skis. In the night of 5 to 6 August Ericsson broke, his friend Trey and Kaltenbrunner jointly by bearing on the shoulder of K2. The weather conditions were difficult, so that the third companion reversed soon. Counter clock 8:10 Kaltenbrunner reported that Ericsson had crashed. He was probably in advancing climbing without a rope in the deep snow at the "bottleneck " of the last dangerous bottleneck on the route to the top, slipped and had not longer be maintained. Kaltenbrunner dismounted immediately, but at first could not find him. During Kaltenbrunner further descent, the Russian climbers Yuri Jermatschek went in search of Ericsson. He discovered his motionless body of approximately 1,000 feet below the crash site, but could not cross the avalanche prone area. After consultation with Ericsson's father, the team decided to leave the dead on the side of the mountain.