Willie Benegas
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Willie Benegas or Guillermo Benegas is an Argentine / US mountain climber.[1] He has been climbing for over 25 years and has climbed Mount Everest and Aconcagua 12 times[2] and also climbed many volcanos in Guatemala.[1] He is from Argentina (Puerto Pirámides, province of Chubut) but now lives in the United States State of Utah.[1] In 2005, while working as a Mountain Madness guide, he was noted as being well liked and respected at EBC, and being quick to help others.[3] He and his brother won an award in 2003 for pioneering "The Crystal Snake" route on Nuptse.[4] He has also climbed Himalayan mountains Manaslu, Cho Oyu and Makalu.[5] In an interview with one Everest climber, he recounted how Benegas went into the "dead bodies tent" to save the life a man others had given up on.[6] That is to say they expected him to die due to various injuries and had fluid coming out of his mouth; however, Benegas managed to make an airway and rallied a group of Sherpa's to carry him down.[6] Within the hour they had gotten him down and helicopter evacuated out the next day.[6] (This was during the 2015 Mount Everest avalanches and earthquake)
Everest summits: (13 times)[7][8]
- 1999[9]
- 2001[9]
- 2002[9]
- 2004[10]
- 2005[10]
- 2007x2[11]
- 2008[11]
- 2009[12]
- 2010[7][13]
- 2012[8][14][15]
- 2017
- 2018
See also
- List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit
- List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
References
- ^ a b c "Guillermo (Willie) Benegas". Sportiva.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ "The Everest Moral Dilemma". National Geographic. Retrieved 2015-04-21.
- ^ "Everest - Mount Everest by climbers, news". Mounteverest.net. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ "Alpine Ascents International Mountain Guide Staff - Willie Benegas". Alpineascents.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ "Alpine Ascents International Mountain Guide Staff - Willie Benegas". Alpineascents.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ a b c "IN THE WAKE OF THE EARTHQUAKE: AN EVEREST INTERVIEW". Cascadedesigns.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ a b "Ascents - Everest". 8000ers.com. 2012-10-16. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ a b "Himalayan Database Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley". Himalayandatabase.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ a b c "USA". Archived from the original on July 11, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
- ^ a b "USA". Archived from the original on July 11, 2015. Retrieved July 10, 2015.
- ^ a b "USA". Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
- ^ "USA". Archived from the original on July 14, 2015. Retrieved July 27, 2015.
- ^ "Himalayan Database Expedition Archives of Elizabeth Hawley". Himalayandatabase.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ "Alpine Ascents International Mountain Guide Staff - Willie Benegas". Alpineascents.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
- ^ "The Everest Moral Dilemma – Beyond the Edge". Adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. Retrieved 2016-05-24.