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july 2 , 2003 -lrb- aged 41 -rrb- turkey turkey turkish turkish 1962 uguruluocak.jpg uğur uluocak
 uğur uluocak
uğur uluocak

yaşar uğur uluocak -lrb- 1962 -- july 2 , 2003 -rrb- was a turkish outdoorsman , mountaineer , photographer , and editor .
born in 1962 in ankara , turkey , uğur attended saint joseph high school in istanbul , and graduated in mechanical engineering from istanbul technical university .
uğur started mountain climbing in 1984 with the mountaineering club at istanbul technical university -lrb- itudak -rrb- .
uğur was a complete sportsman .
he competed four years in rowing , ranking in first place .
he was a middle and long distance runner for eight years , and a scuba diver and cyclist for the last two years .
as a globally known mountaineer , he trained many young sportsmen both in theoretical and practical ways .
from 1999 on , uğur worked as a photographer , expedition coordinator and editor for the turkish nature and outdoor sports magazine '' `` atlas '' '' .
he not only wrote about his mountaineering adventures but also on mountaineering ethics and history with his friend ahmet köksal .
uğur was an influential figure in the turkish mountaineering community , with a very strong and dedicated personality and an extremely high intellectual capacity .
he was fluent in five languages .
professionally , he was a lecturer at the marmara university in istanbul and was also an active member of the communist party of turkey for over 20 years .
uğur uluocak died on july 2 , 2003 while on a descent in the alarcha mountain in kyrgyzstan when a rock broke off and he took a 4200m fall .
his body was recovered by his teammates haldun Ülkenli and alper işın duran and brought to his homeland for burial .
uğur is the second turkish mountaineer after ali kepenek to have died in a foreign country while climbing a mountain .
direktaş , north face -lrb- solo , in 2 hours -rrb- and northeast dihedral , ala mountains -lrb- turkey -rrb- mt. büyük demirkazık , west face -lrb- solo -rrb- and north face , ala mountains -lrb- turkey -rrb- mt. küçük demirkazık , south face -lrb- first ascent -rrb- , ala mountains -lrb- turkey -rrb- Çağalın başı , northwest face -lrb- first ascent -rrb- , ala mountains -lrb- turkey -rrb- ağrı -lrb- mount ararat -rrb- -lrb- 5,137 m -rrb- , north glacier in summer and winter mount elbrus -lrb- 5,642 m -rrb- in caucassus peak vorobiyov -lrb- 5,685 m -rrb- , peak chetyriokh -lrb- peak of fours -rrb- -lrb- 6,299 m -rrb- , peak korzhenevskaya -lrb- 7,105 m -rrb- , peak communism -lrb- 7,495 m -rrb- in pamir mountains razdelnaya -lrb- 6,248 m -rrb- , khan tengri -lrb- 7,010 m -rrb- , lenin peak -lrb- 7,134 m -rrb- in kyrgyzstan .
k-2 -lrb- 8,611 m -rrb- , two attempts in 1998 and 1999 1999 shisha pangma -lrb- 8,013 m -rrb- in people 's republic of china 1999 cho oyu -lrb- 8,201 m -rrb- in nepal , alpine solo 2000 annapurna attempt 2002 mt. reşko -lrb- 4,135 m -rrb- , northwest/north face , cilo mountains -lrb- turkey -rrb-
