David Breashears Passes Away at age 68 (03-14-2024)

American Mountaineer and Filmmaker David Breashears Dies at Age 68
Outside Obit here

What a legend. RIP.

Highly recommend High Exposure.

Not many people achieve that level of climbing and filmmaking. Like Jim said, I need to pull out my old copy of High Exposure.   RIP 

Wong Chu Sherpa and his crew all admired and spoke very highly of David Breashears .

Some of the most incredible high altitude videos from Everest, ever. 

Way too young to go.

Condolences to family and friends.

Damn, that's sad.

RIP David.
agree, way to young.

Very sad to lose him so early.  An amazing climbing talent and filmmaker. RIP Kloberdanz Kid

Had the pleasure of running into him and bouldering together a couple times around 1980. Memorable though brief encounters, Super personable guy,, I remember learning a few things from him that helped me improve at the time.

Too young indeed! The mortality check is a bit sobering.

RIP Dave.

What a sad loss and way too young!!! I met him a few times after he moved to the Boston area and he was very low key and fun to be around--just an all-around nice guy, and obviously extremely talented in several different spheres. RIP Dave

Sad news indeed. I knew David as a very talented young climber in the Boulder area. He won four Emmys I believe.

Very sad to hear of his passing . Way too young. From Eldo to Everest !

For us Eldo junkies his style, grace and routes were an inspiration.

RIP David.

What a loss.  Perilous Journey.

Very interesting article in NYTIMES today .

I offer my sincere condolences to his Family and many Friends.

RIP 

Gerald Adams wrote:

Very interesting article in NYTIMES today .

Thanks for mentioning this. The article is here, for those like me who don’t have a NYTimes subscription.

https://archive.is/3T1Kd

Thanks fort the link, Terry E.  (I read in a local Grand Junction paper that Dave died of natural causes.  Dunno if that's the final word.  But he

was waaaaay to young).

When Breashears’ Everest IMAX film came out, everyone still had the old low resolution tube TVs in their homes. To see a climb like that up close in full 70mm detail, on a huge screen, was mind blowing. The shot of climbers on the summit ridge with Makalu in the distance was iconic. And the story went around that Breashears was such a perfectionist, he made the climbers go back down and climb up it again so he could be sure to get the shot. “Take two” at over 8,000 meters. And the film had to be threaded into the camera with bare hands. 

Ed Viesturs presented Everest IMAX in Reno to a sold-out crowd and answered questions and signed books ,etc. It was very interesting .

Been on biz travel for the last week or so.  Just found out.  Wow, what a loss and at a relatively young age.  Reminiscent of Ed Webster's passing; both from the same region of the US and both of around the same age.  RIP to a great climber and revolutionary film maker.

An elite climber of the mid 70's ....  but he never received the publicity of the "famous" camp 4 climbers.