Scott Fischer - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Scott Fischer net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Former mountain climber known for being the first American to climb K2 without extra oxygen as well as the first American to climb Lohtse. He died in 1996 while descending Mount Everest. In this article, we will discover how old is Scott Fischer? Who is Scott Fischer dating now & how much money does Scott Fischer have?

Scott Fischer Biography

Scott Fischer is one of the most popular and richest Mountain Climber who was born on December 24, 1955 in Michigan, Michigan, United States. He and Rienhold Messner both climbed Mount Kilimanjaro’s Breach Icicle.

Fischer was the son of Shirley and Gene Fischer, and was of German, Dutch, and Hungarian ancestry. He spent his early life in Michigan and New Jersey. After watching a TV documentary in 1970 in his home in the Basking Ridge section of Bernards Township, New Jersey about the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) with his father, he headed to the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming for the summer. While attending Ridge High School, from which he graduated in 1973, he spent his summers in the mountains with NOLS, eventually becoming a full-time senior NOLS instructor.

In 1977, Fischer attended an ice climbing seminar by Jeff Lowe in Utah. A group of climbers scaled the frozen Bridal Veil Falls in Provo Canyon. During the climb Fischer began to climb solo on the near vertical ice formation when his ice axe broke leaving him stranded. The others managed to get him a new axe but when he began ascending again the tool now popped out and he fell hundreds of feet. He survived, but injured his foot with his ice axe as he fell.

He was survived by his wife Jeannie, who he married in 1981, and children Andy and Katie.

He helped found the company Mountain Madness. His story was featured in the 1997 TV movie Into Thin Air: Death on Everest and the 2015 feature film Everest.

Scott Eugene Fischer (December 24, 1955 – May 11, 1996) was an American mountaineer and mountain guide. He was renowned for his ascents of the world’s highest mountains made without the use of supplemental oxygen. Fischer and Wally Berg were the first Americans to summit Lhotse (27,940 feet / 8516 m), the world’s fourth highest peak. Fischer, Charley Mace, and Ed Viesturs summitted K2 (28,251 feet/ 8611m) without supplemental oxygen. Fischer first climbed Mount Everest (29,029 feet / 8,848 m) in 1994 and later died during the 1996 blizzard on Everest while descending from the peak.

Scott Fischer Net Worth

Scott is one of the richest Mountain Climber from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Scott Fischer's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

He started climbing with the National Outdoor Leadership School while in high school.

In 1984, Fischer and Wes Krause became the second ever team to scale the Breach Icicle on Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa after Reinhold Messner and Konrad Renzler in 1978.

Through Mountain Madness, Fischer guided the 1993 Climb for the Cure on Denali (20,320 feet) in Alaska which was organized by eight students at Princeton University. The expedition raised $280,000 for the American Foundation for AIDS Research. In 1994, Fischer and Rob Hess climbed Mt. Everest without supplemental oxygen. They also formed a part of the expedition that removed 5000 pounds of trash and 150 discarded oxygen bottles from Everest. With the climb, Fischer had climbed the top of the highest peaks on six of the seven continents with the exception of Vinson Massif in Antarctica. The American Alpine Club awarded the David Brower Conservation Award to all members of the expedition. In January 1996, Fischer and Mountain Madness guided a fundraising ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro (19,341 feet / 5,895 m) in Africa.

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In 1984, Fischer and two friends, Wes Krause and Michael Allison, founded Mountain Madness, an adventure travel service. He guided clients for climbing major mountain peaks around the world. In 1992, during the climb on K2 as a part of a Russian-American expedition, Fischer fell into a crevasse and tore the rotator cuff of his right shoulder. Against the advice of the doctor, Fischer spent two weeks trying to recover and asked climbing partner Ed Viesturs to tape his shoulder and tether it to his waist so it would not continue to dislocate and then resumed the climb using only his left arm. On their first summit bid, the climbers abandoned their attempt at Camp III to rescue Aleskei Nikiforov, Thor Keiser and Chantal Mauduit. Fischer and Ed Viesturs reached the summit on their second attempt without supplemental oxygen along with Charley Mace. During descent, they met climbers Rob Hall and Gary Ball who were suffering with altitude sickness at camp II. Hall’s health improved along the descent but Ball required subsequent help from Fischer and the other climbers to reach the base.

Who is Scott Fischer Dating?

According to our records, Scott Fischer married to Jeannie Price . As of January 13, 2024, Scott Fischer’s is not dating anyone.

Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa died in an avalanche in autumn 1996 also on an expedition to Everest, and Boukreev died in December 1997 in an avalanche on an expedition to Annapurna. Fischer’s climbing firm Mountain Madness was bought in 1997 by Keith and Christine Boskoff.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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In 1981, Fischer married Jeannie Price, who was his student on a NOLS Mountaineering Course in 1974. They moved to Seattle in 1982 where they had two children, Andy and Katie Rose Fischer-Price.

In May 1996, Fischer guided a team of 18 in climbing Everest which included two guides – Neal Beidleman and Anatoli Boukreev – and eight clients, assisted by eight Sherpas led by Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa. On May 6, the Mountain Madness team left base camp (5,364 meters) for their summit climb. At Camp II (6,400 meters), Fischer learned that his friend Dale Kruse was ill and was unable to make it out of Camp I (6,000 m). Fischer descended from Camp II, met up with Kruse and continued to base camp along with him. Leaving Kruse at the base camp, he ascended to rejoin his team at Camp II. He was slow on ascent to Camp III (7,200m) the following day and on May 9, he left Camp III for Camp IV at the South Col (7,950m). On May 10, Fischer reached the summit after 3:45 PM, much later than the safe turnaround time of 2:00 PM due to the unusually high number of climbers who tried to make it to the summit on the same day. He was exhausted from the ascent and becoming increasingly ill, possibly suffering from HAPE, HACE, or a combination of both.

Facts & Trivia

Scott Ranked on the list of most popular Mountain Climber. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Scott Fischer celebrates birthday on December 24 of every year.

Has Scott Fischer been found?

The climbers had been forced to bivouac. A team of sherpas went back up Saturday and at the 27,000-foot level found Fischer and Makalu Gao, leader of a Taiwanese group that had lost another climber in a fall Thursday. The rescuers managed to revive Gao, but Fischer was barely breathing, in a deep coma.

Is Scott Fischer dead?

May 11, 1996

What is Scott Fischer's condition at the summit?

During his expedition to the summit of Everest in spring of 1996, Fischer begins to suffer from serious fatigue, in part because his guide, Anatoli Boukreev, isn’t doing his job effectively. On the afternoon of May 10, Fischer’s weeks of fatigue catch up with him, and in the thin air he become delirious.

Who was on Scott Fischer's team?

Beidleman, Pittman, Fox, Madsen, Gammelgaard, and Klev Schoening, a climber from Seattle, were all part of Fischer’s team. (Another member, Martin Adams, had left the summit earlier.) Yasuko Namba, a 95-pound Japanese climber, had collapsed by the ropes, and Beidleman pulled her to the bottom.

Is Scott Fischer's body on Everest?

In fact, Scott Fischer’s is one of around 200 bodies that still remain on Mt Everest, many of them with grimly fascinating stories to tell.

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