Born
in 1966 in Eskilstuna / Sweden. Killed on september 30
year 2002 while rock climbing the route "Air Guitar"
on the Sunshine Wall ouside Seattle / Washington. At the
start of the route that was to become Görans last,
his final climbing partner, Erden Eruc has carved into
the rock:
"With a thumb up
Kropp on Top!
Göran lives
1966 - 2002"
Göran, or "Kroppen" as he was called by
many, was the most famous Swedish climber due to his adventure
to Everest; he packed all his climbing equipment on his
bicycle, biked from his home in Jönköping /
Sweden to Kathmandu, carried alone all equipment and food
to Base Camp, climbed Mount Everest without supplemental
oxygen, and biked home again!
This was not the only hard climb he had acomplished; in
1990 he climbed the higly complicated Mustagh Tower, reaching
the summit together with Rafael Jensen. This was the fourh
ever expedition to succed. Göran was the 10:th person
on the summit.
Three year later he climbed K2, reaching the summit alone,
the solo climb from the highest camp to the summit and
back was a first. The descent became a struggle for life
in a storm. Everybody thought he was gone when he suddenly
stumbled into BC, totally exhausted.
After this he succesfully soloed the ordinary route on
Broad Peak in just 17 hours.
In the spring of 1997 Göran climbed Shisma Pangma
together with his girlfriend Renata Chlumska, he said
this was his last 8,000 metre summit. He
beleived to have consumed his luck in the Himalayas and
that the extremes above 8,000 metre may effect your brain
if you push it to hard.
Despite this statement he once again returned to Everest
in 1999 and made a second ascent together with Renata.
During spring 2000, Göran teamed up with Ola Skinnarmo
to try reaching the North Pole by ski. Half way, Göran
made a mistake and his thumb got a serious frost-bite.
It was decided that Ola was to continue alone whil e Göran
would be evacuated by a helicopter. He returned saftely
home and his thumb was healed. And Ola reached the North
Pole... This was Görans first and only unsuccessful
expedition.
What Görans himself considered what to become his
"last great adventure" was to sail alone to
the Antrctica, ski to the south pole, turn around, ski
back and sail home again. In a TV interview, Göran
said he actually was considering to skip the sailing and
row all the way from Sweden. If he would set a record
it should be hard to copy or repeat. Sadly Göran
never got a chance to try his endurance and power on this
trip...
"Climbing is the best sport because it demands
a lot of willpower, physical and mental strenght to
succeed. The travel is also interesting - going to foreign
countries, experiencing diffrent cultures and being
in the middle of the nature, with magnificent scenery
and mountains. It is heaven to do a Himalayan expedition..."
- Göran
Kropp
(From Alive by HH)
SELECTED CLIMBS AND EXPEDITIONS
|
1988 |
Pik Lenin (7,134m) |
|
1989 |
- Illiniza Sur (5,266 m)
- Cotopaxi (5,897m, solo)
- Chimborazo (6,310m)
- Illimani (6,402m, solo)
- Huayana Potosi (6,088m, solo, new route)
- Illampu (6,522m)
|
|
1990 |
Mustagh Tower (7,273m) |
|
1991 |
Pik Pobeda (7,134m, solo) |
|
1992 |
Cho Oyo (8,201m) |
|
1993 |
K2 (8,611m) |
|
1994 |
Broad Peak (8,047m, solo, 17 hours
BC and back) |
|
1996 |
Mount Everest (8,850m) without supplemental
oxygen) |
|
1997 |
Shisma Pangma (8,046m) |
|
1999 |
Mount Everest (8,850m) |
How to contact Renata Chlumska
Phone +46 708 361303
E-mail: info@renata.se
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