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Ranking in 7summits list, either CP or K | : | 23 |
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Ranking in Carstensz Pyramid list | : | 15 |
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Ranking in Kosciuszko list | : | 0 |
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First name | : | Arne |
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Family name | : | Naess |
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Gender | : | male |
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Country of origin | : | Norway |
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Date of Birth | : | 1937-12-08 |
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Name of first summit | : | Kilimanjaro |
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Date of climbing the first summit | : | 1982-11-15 |
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Name of final summit in Carstensz list | : | Aconcagua |
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Date of final summit in Carstensz list | : | 1994-01-15 |
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Name of final summit in Kosciuszko list | : | xxx |
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Date of final summit in Kosciuszko list | : | 0000-00-00 |
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Date of climbing Kilimanjaro | : | 1982-11-15 |
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Date of climbing Elbrus | : | 1992-05-06 |
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Date of climbing Aconcagua | : | 1994-01-15 |
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Date of climbing Denali | : | 1984-06-15 |
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Date of climbing Vinson | : | 1988-11-11 |
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Date of climbing Everest | : | 1985-04-29 |
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Date of climbing Carstensz Pyramid | : | 1992-05-24 |
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Date of climbing Kosciuszko | : | 0000-00-00 |
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Climbed Carstensz Pyramid? | : | Yes |
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Climbed Kosciuszko? | : | No |
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Total time including Carstensz Pyramid | : | 11y,062d |
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Total time including Kosciuszko | : | xxx |
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Age when finished with CP | : | 56y,038d |
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Age when finished with K | : | xxx |
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Additional Info | : | Arne started climbing at age 11; he was the first norwegian to climb the Eiger north face, later becoming succesfull in the ship business.
Also known as he was married to Diana Ross; he died 14 jan 2004 in a climbing accident in South Africa.
(following text from our friends at Mounteverest.net:)
Arne Naess (born Dec 8, 1937) summited Everest in 1985, leading one of the must successful Everest expeditions ever. No less than 17 expedition members made the summit, from the South Col SE ridge. The expedition was famous for being very well organized, and included some well known names such as Ang Rita Sherpa (his then 3d summit), Dick Bass (who later coined the idea of the "seven summits"), Imax filmer David Breashears, and Chris Bonington (expedition "Captain"). Arne was the nephew of the famous pioneer and philosopher Arne Naess sr., who in 1950 led the expedition that made the first ascent of Tirich Mir, Pakistan (7706 m).
Arne Naess made a fortune in shipping and married singer Diana Ross in 1986. They had 2 children and divorced in 1999. Arne then married Camilla Astrup, and had 2 kids with her. Arne had in total 7 children. He died 66 years old, the way that he had lived - climbing a mountain."
The following is the news report that covered Arne's death; from http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14374025.htm (offline now)
[quote]14 Jan 2004 08:22:02 GMT
Friends watched Norwegian tycoon fall to death-police
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CAPE TOWN, Jan 14 (Reuters) - Horrified friends watched through binoculars as Norwegian tycoon Arne Naess, an avid mountaineer and ex-husband of pop singer Diana Ross, fell to his death from a South African mountain, police said on Wednesday.
Police spokeswoman Superintendent Mary Martins-Engelbrecht told Reuters the 66-year-old Naess, visiting friends at a farm in the Franschoek mountains near Cape Town, died on Tuesday after plunging 100 metres (330 feet) from a rock face.
"He left to climb the mountain at about 8 a.m. and was watched from the farm by his hosts with binoculars," Martins-Engelbrecht said.
"At about 12:00 or 12.30 p.m., it appears he slipped and fell about 100 metres to his death. He was certified dead on the scene," Martins-Engelbrecht said, adding that an investigation of the incident was under way.
The Star newspaper reported that Naess's South African host Johann Rupert, executive chairman of luxury goods giant Richemont, had suggested that a local mountain guide accompany Naess on his climb but that the offer had been turned down.
The Norwegian shipping magnate was known as an experienced mountaineer who climbed Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, in 1985.
Naess married Ross in the mid-1980s and the couple had two children before they were divorced in 2000.
He was born in Germany in 1937, a nephew of Norway's Arne Naess senior, a well-known mountaineer and philosopher. He leaves seven children, including two with his partner, Norwegian Camilla Astrup.
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Here's some more biographical info from the Telegraph.uk site:
"Arne Naess
(Filed: 15/01/2004)
Arne Naess, who has died in a climbing accident in South Africa aged 66, was a Norwegian shipping magnate, mountaineer and, for 13 years, the second husband of the tempestuous pop diva Diana Ross.
It was for his marriage to Diana Ross, with whom he had two sons, that Naess became best known. It was a curious relationship, not only because the couple came from such different backgrounds (when he met her in 1985, Naess professed never to have heard of Diana Ross and the Supremes), but also because they spent much of their marriage apart, with Naess residing in London and his wife in Connecticut.
Yet, in 1999, when Naess announced in a television interview that the marriage was over, Diana Ross was reportedly devastated; some traced her subsequent problems with drink to the breakdown of the relationship.
It was said that Naess disliked being referred to as "Mr Ross", and indeed his marriage to one of the world's most famous women tended to overshadow his other achievements, which were formidable.
For Naess had not only built up a shipping empire (now reputedly worth some $500 million); in 1985 he led one of the most successful and well-organised expeditions ever made to Everest - the expedition on which the British mountaineer, Chris Bonington, finally succeeded in reaching the summit.
In his book Chris Bonington's Everest (2002), the British climber recalled how, in 1982, Naess telephoned to ask whether he would agree to a meeting; Naess wanted advice on an expedition to Everest which he was planning. The Norwegian asked: "Have you got an airport near you?" Bonington replied that Newcastle was the nearest, but it was 60 miles away. An hour later, Naess phoned back. "You've an airfield just by Carlisle. I'm chartering a plane. I'll be with you at two o'clock on Monday."
Bonington was impressed, but he was just recovering from the disaster of his previous attempt on Everest, in which two of his companions lost their lives; and he had promised his wife that he would never go back. Although he agreed to be Naess's equipment and planning adviser, he told the Norwegian that he would not join the expedition: "In the following year he played me like a fly-fisherman would a salmon, teasing me with questions about Sherpas or equipment and then mentioning that I could always change my mind."
Bonington eventually succumbed, and was one of the 17 members of Naess's party who reached the summit, from the South Col South-East ridge, in a record time of 10 days.
According to an unauthorised biography by the Norwegian journalist Mona Levin, Naess was born Arne Raab in Germany on December 8 1937, the son of a German ski-jumping coach and Kikki Naess, a physiotherapist and a member of one of Norway's most prominent families. His uncle, Arne Naess, after whom he was named, is the famous mountaineer, ecologist and philosopher who, in 1950, led the expedition that made the first ascent of Tirich Mir in Pakistan.
The marriage between the parents of the younger Arne broke up after the Second World War, and at the age of eight he moved to Norway with his mother. His surname was changed to Naess in 1947.
His uncle Arne now stepped in as a father figure, raising his nephew as his own son. It was he who inspired the young boy with his own love of the mountains. In 1985 he would accompany his nephew's expedition to base camp at 20,000 feet.
As a child, the younger Arne Naess was said to have been picked on at school because he spoke German in a nation still bitter about the Nazi occupation. As he grew older, however, he won the admiration of his peers for his dare-devil exploits. It was said that Arne celebrated his last day at school, in 1956, by climbing the National Theatre building in Oslo, leaving his cap on the building's spire.
He eventually left Norway to work in New York for another uncle, Erling Naess, who had made a fortune in shipping. By the late 1960s Arne had established his own shipping business, and by the mid-1980s was reported to be worth $100 million.
When Naess met Diana Ross on a Barbados beach in 1985, both were taking their children from previous marriages on holiday. Naess was no great music lover, but the two got on well, and a few months later, as he prepared to ascend Everest, Diana Ross reportedly flew out to join him at base camp. They were married the following year in a celebrity-packed ceremony which featured Stevie Wonder singing I Just Called to Say I Love You. Their honeymoon was spent on Naess's own private island of Taino, near Tahiti.
The relationship between the Norwegian businessman, with his passion for gung-ho hobbies such as mountaineering and trekking, and his limelight-loving wife fascinated the gossip mongers, and within a year rumours appeared in the press that the marriage was in difficulties.
Diana Ross said that she enjoyed climbing mountains with Naess, but his uncle Arne told a reporter that "rustic cabin life is not for Diana". Insiders also claimed that Naess was annoyed by his wife's spending, which reportedly included $25,000 a month on private jets and $1,000 a month on lipstick. Yet, for a time at least, the relationship, which Diana Ross described as "a series of sexy honeymoons", seemed to suit them.
The end of the marriage was announced in early 1999, when Naess gruffly informed an interviewer that they had separated. Diana Ross claimed that the first she knew of it was when her publicist called to tell her, although it appears that she was not greatly surprised. Two weeks later, when her record company released her new album Every Day is a New Day, most of the songs were about a disintegrating relationship. "I think he's going through a little bit of a menopause," she reflected. "He's looking for something better or a bigger mountain to climb."
Naess died on Tuesday while abseiling down a mountain outside the wine-producing town of Franschoek, about 50 miles north of Cape Town in South Africa.
He is survived by seven children: two with his current companion, Camilla Astrup; the two sons of his marriage to Diana Ross; and, by his first marriage to the Swedish designer Filippa Kumlin D'Orey, a son and two daughters, one of whom is the pop singer Leona Naess."
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