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Hoey's body was never recovered. Whittaker said, "I can't think of a more beautiful resting place; she fell into the prettiest place that ever was." Whittaker cited Hoey's death as a contributing factor to the expedition's failure to summit Everest, saying: "If Marty had been with us, we would have
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said that he and Hoey were perched on a 45-degree rock slope at about 26,600 feet (8,100 m), carrying gear to establish Camp 6, with the expectation of heading for the summit in the next day or two. Wickwire said that Hoey leaned back to let him go ahead, and a buckle on her harness opened,
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made it." The 16 remaining team members, all men, would make a third and final attempt, and ultimately be turned back, shy of the summit, by fierce weather.
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Hoey was one of ten fatalities on Everest in the 1982 climbing season, but the only American. Some other fatalities that season were noted British climbers
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releasing her from the fixed rope and sending her plunging down 6,000 feet (1,800 m) into a crevasse.
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This biographical article relating to an American known for climbing or mountaineering is a
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ski resort. She befriended him and accompanied him on his own successful ascent of
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to her death, as the result of an unsecured climbing harness. She had scaled
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For more than ten years, Hoey worked as a professional guide on
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Mount Everest
Great Couloir
Washington
Mount Rainier
Alaska
Denali
Mount Rainier
Mount McKinley
Pik Lenin
Nanda Devi
Dick Bass
Snowbird
Mount McKinley
Mount Everest
Jim Wickwire
Peter Boardman
Joe Tasker
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