Jess Roskelley

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Jess Roskelley climbing The Citadel , 2013

Jess Roskelley (born July 13, 1982 in Spokane , United States , † April 16, 2019 in Banff National Park , Canada ) was an American sport climber and mountaineer . On May 21, 2003, at the age of 20, he climbed Mount Everest with his father and at that time was the youngest American to climb the highest peak in the world.

Life

Jess Roskelley grew up as the son of American climber John Roskelley in Spokane , Washington state . After high school, he moved to Montana , where he attended the University of Montana . According to his own statements, he began his career as a mountaineer at Mount Rainier , where he completed a professional mountain guide training and successfully completed it at the age of 18. In 2003, at the age of 20, Roskelley had climbed Mount Rainier 35 times.

Services

In March 2003, Roskelley and his father took part in a Himalayan expedition entitled "Generations on Everest ". For him it was the first attempt to climb the highest mountain in the world, while his father had failed here three times before. The Roskelleys reached the summit together on May 21, 2003. By 2010, when 13-year-old Jordan Romero also climbed the mountain, Jess was the youngest American summiteer to climb Everest.

Roskelley later worked as a welder in Alaska and devoted his free time to climbing ice and rock. In October 2012, he and his friend John Frieh climbed a new route to the 2774  m high Mount Wake in the Alaska range . The route was later named The Cook Inlet . In April 2013, Jess Roskelley, Ben Erdmann and Kristoffer Szilas found a new route on The Citadel , a peak in the Kichatna Mountains of Alaska. The route near the Supa Dupa Couloir was called the Hypa Zypa Couloir .

Avalanche accident in Canada

Jess Roskelley died in 2019 together with David Lama and Hansjörg Auer in an avalanche on Howse Peak in Banff National Park . The rope team has been missing since April 16, 2019. The national park authorities assumed early on that the climbers had died. Due to the bad weather , the search had to be canceled. On April 21, 2019, the Canadian National Park Authority announced that the bodies of the three exceptional alpinists had been found.

Web links

Commons : Jess Roskelley  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andrew Bisharat: In the wake of tragedy, climbers pay homage to David Lama. In: National Geographic. Accessed April 20, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Profiles: Jess Roskelley. In: The University of Montana President's Report. University of Montana , 2003, accessed March 9, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Jess Roskelley. JessRoskelley.com, accessed March 12, 2014 .
  4. ↑ Rich Landers: Peak of Desire. In: The Spokesman Review. June 8, 2003, accessed March 12, 2014 .
  5. ↑ Sara Leaming: Roskelleys reach the top of Everest. In: The Spokesman Review. May 21, 2003, accessed March 12, 2014 .
  6. ^ Gopal Sharma: California teen becomes youngest to climb Everest. Reuters , May 22, 2010, accessed March 12, 2014 .
  7. ↑ Gwen Cameron: Frieh Finds Two Late-Season Ascents In AK. In: Alpinist. October 29, 2012, accessed March 12, 2014 .
  8. ^ Dougald MacDonald: Rare Autumn New Route in Ruth Gorge. In: Climbing. November 5, 2012, accessed March 12, 2014 .
  9. ↑ Dougald MacDonald: Amazing New Route in Alaska's Kichatna Range. In: Climbing. April 13, 2013, accessed March 12, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Spiegel-Online from April 18, 2019: World-class climber missing in Canada
  11. ↑ Avalanche drama: Little hope for Tyrolean Lama and Auer. In: Tyrolean daily newspaper. April 18, 2019, accessed April 18, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Death of Lama, Auer and Roskelley confirmed. In: orf.at. Retrieved April 22, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Roskelley, Jess
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American sport climber and alpinist
DATE OF BIRTH July 13, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Spokane , Washington , United States
DATE OF DEATH April 16, 2019
Place of death Banff National Park , Canada