page_title: Scott Fischer
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: Scott Fischer / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: English: This memorial to Scott Fisher resides on an open plateau outside the village of Dughla in the Khumbu Valley a days walk from Everest Base Camp
context_page_description: Scott Eugene Fischer 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, the world's fourth highest peak. Fischer, Charley Mace, and Ed Viesturs summitted K2 without supplemental oxygen. Fischer first climbed Mount Everest in 1994 and later died during the 1996 blizzard on Everest while descending from the peak.
context_section_description: A memorial stupa for Fischer was built by the Sherpas in 1996 outside the village of Dughla in the Solukhumbu District of Nepal. In 1997, Ingrid Hunt, the doctor who had accompanied the 1996 Mountain Madness Everest Expedition to Base Camp, returned to place a bronze memorial plaque on it in his honor.
  The American Alpine Club established the Scott Fischer Memorial Conservation Fund in his memory which helps environmentally proactive expeditions throughout the world.
  A route up Mt Kilimanjaro is dedicated to Fischer. This route is called the Western-Breach Route. There is a plaque in memorial for Fischer along this route.
caption: This memorial to Fischer sits on an open plateau outside the village of Dughla in the Khumbu Valley, a day’s walk from Everest Base Camp.
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