Sandy Hill (climber)

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Sandra Hill (born April 12, 1955 , formerly Sandra Hill Pittman ) is a mountaineer, writer, and former fashion editor. She survived the Mount Everest disaster in 1996 , shortly after she was the 34th woman to climb Mount Everest and the second American woman to climb all of the Seven Summits .

Life

Sandy Hill grew up in Los Gatos , California. Her father owned a company that rented portable toilets to construction sites. She graduated from UCLA before moving to New York for her first job as a buyer for Bonwit Teller department store. After meeting an editor of Mademoiselle magazine , she began her second job as the magazine's merchandising editor, after which she became the beauty editor of Brides magazine . Hill then worked until 1986 as the president of an "In Fashion" department of the RJR Nabisco concern, where she produced television programs about fashion and style. One of the shows was Fashion America , which was the first television show to feature fashion reviews, videos and footage of the catwalks . Hill has also worked as an editor for Vogue and Condé Nast Traveler , and more of her articles have appeared in other publications.

Hill was briefly married to Jerry Solomon, who worked in the sports business and was studying at Columbia University at the time; the couple divorced when Hill was 23 years old. Solomon later married figure skater Nancy Kerrigan . In July 1979, Hill married MTV co-founder Robert W. Pittman; they have a son, Robert T. "Bo" Pittman. The couple divorced in 1997 and Hill received a $ 20 million divorce payment. Hill met snowboarder Stephen Koch while climbing Mt. Everest in April 1996. They lived together in New York until 1997.

In 1998, Hill attended the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in New York to study monument conservation and restoration . She graduated in 2000.

Rockclimbing

Hill started climbing as a teenager; her first ascent was Disappointment Peak in the Teton Range at 13. In 1992 she began her mission to become the first American woman to climb the Seven Summits, the highest peaks on every continent. She climbed the Aconcagua (1992), Denali (1992), Vinson Massif (1993), Mount Elbrus (1993), Mount Kilimanjaro (1993), Mount Kosciuszko (1994), and Puncak Jaya (1995). Hill reached the summit of Mount Everest in 1996, becoming the second American woman to climb the Seven Summits, after Mary "Dolly" Lefever .

Hill had already attempted to climb Mount Everest twice before reaching the summit in 1996. In 1993, she reached an altitude of 7200 with a guided expedition that followed the traditional South Col route. In 1994 she received corporate sponsorship for attempting to climb the difficult Kangshung Face , personally escorted by Alex Lowe , but the expedition was halted by an impending avalanche.

The accident on Mount Everest in 1996

Hill was one of the survivors of the Mount Everest disaster. She was part of the Mountain Madness Expedition led by Scott Fischer for her third attempt to climb Mount Everest , she had an agreement with NBC Interactive Media , which broadcast the information for school children in the US, she ran a daily video blog and talked about the team's journey. Hill's team was moving through the southwest ridge when the storm hit them, making it impossible for them and their team, including Tim Madsen and Charlotte Fox, to find their camp (Camp IV). The three climbers were saved by Anatoly Bukrejew .

The deaths from the 1996 disaster were controversially discussed in numerous magazine articles and interviews with survivors. Jon Krakauer , who was sent on the expedition to report on the commercialization of Everest and the growing number of wealthy travelers with no experience, expanded his 1996 article in Outside Magazine into a book with the same title Into Thin Air (1997). Hill and the others were seasoned mountaineers, however. Hill dismissed negative comments from various media, including in an interview with Newsweek in which she said, "We behaved like a team at all times." Because she was very visible in the media before the expedition, she believed that " rich New Yorker "to have been portrayed, which" portrayed a slight enemy "

In a 2006 interview with Outside , Hill Anatoly Nikolaevich defended Bukreev's decisions on Everest and attacked the media and various authors and journalists who wrote about the disaster, saying that “most of what was reported in 1996 was biased, sensational and it was exaggerated - exciting fiction at best - but not journalism. ”Bukreev was awarded a prize for heroism by the Alpine Club , and he described his story , at least in part, in The Climb: Tragic Ambitions on Everest (1997) Reply to Krakauer's report in which Krakauer put some of the blame on Bukreev, Hill, and a few others.

In the August 1997 issue of Vogue , Hill wrote about the entire experience, detailing her long history as a climber and the passion for mountaineering that she developed at a young age. She talked about the difficulties she encountered climbing the Seven Summits and the dangers she faced during her last ascent of Mount Everest.

In the 1997 television film Into Thin Air: Death on Everest , based on Krakauer's book, Pamela Gien plays Sandy Hill.

David Breashears interviewed Hill in the documentary Storm Over Everest (2008), which aired on PBS Frontline on May 13, 2008 .

In the 2015 film Everest , Hill was played by Vanessa Kirby .

Books

Hill is the lead author of Fandango: Recipes, Parties, and License to Make Magic (2007), which tells about Sandy Hill's life and various cooking recipes co- authored with Stephanie Valentine , and tips for decorating and organizing parties the example of the 18 parties that Hill designed and gave. The book received praise from The New York Times and other authors. Hill's second book, Mountain: Portraits of High Places (2011), is a collection of photographs and images by wildlife photographers, including Galen Rowell , Peter Beard , Ansel Adams , and Frank Smythe .

credentials

  1. ↑ Statistics of 7 climber Hill summits (Pittman) . Retrieved December 4, 2011.
  2. ^ Rob Haskell: The Talk; Sandy's Excellent Adventure . In: The New York Times , February 26, 2006. Retrieved September 20, 2011. 
  3. ^ Claudia Glenn Dowling: After Everest . In: People . 55, No. 19, May 14, 2001. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
  4. ↑ The women Summiters on Everest (1975-2004) . Everest History. Retrieved September 2, 2011.
  5. ^ David Patrick Columbia: Sandy Hill Pittman . In: The List . New York Social Diary. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  6. ↑ Chrisena Coleman: She's Climbing Back Everest Survivor's Next Stop Is Home . In: Daily News , May 22, 1996. Retrieved September 20, 2011. 
  7. ^ A b In re Marriage of Hill & Dittmer , 202 Cal. App. 4th 1046 (Cal. App. 2d Dist. 2011).
  8. ↑ Rob Buchanan: Slave to the Quest . In: Outside Magazine . May 2003.
  9. ↑ Stephanie Losee: Return to Thin Air - Without Jon Krakauer? , Huffington Post by Stephanie Losee . March 28, 2008. Retrieved September 19, 2011. 
  10. ↑ David Van Biema: Death Storm on Everest . In: Time Magazine , May 27, 1996. Retrieved September 20, 2011. 
  11. ^ John F. Burns: Everest Takes Worst Toll, Refusing to Become Stylish . In: The New York Times , May 14, 1996. Retrieved September 20, 2011. 
  12. ^ Everest summiter Sandy Hill Pittman . Everest News. Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  13. ↑ Into Rarified Air . Outside. 17th September 2017.
  14. ^ Jon Krakauer: Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster . Anchor Books, 1999, ISBN 0-385-49478-5 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  15. ↑ A Case of Altitude Chicness? . Newsweek. May 26, 1996. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  16. ^ The 1996 Expedition . In: PBS . Retrieved September 26, 2011. 
  17. ↑ Into Thin Air: Death on Everest . IMDb . Retrieved September 20, 2011.
  18. ↑ Storm Over Everest . In: PBS , May 13, 2008. Retrieved November 17, 2017. 
  19. ↑ Matt Jaffe: New Everest Doc Goes Beyond 'Into Thin Air' . In: ABC News , May 13, 2008. Retrieved September 26, 2011. 
  20. ^ Sandy Hill: Fandango: spectacular parties from California wine country . Artisan, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-57965-338-5 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
  21. ^ Mountain: Portraits of High Places . Rizzoliusa. Retrieved September 28, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Hill, Sandy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Sandra; Pittman, Sandra Hill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mountaineer, writer, and fashion editor
DATE OF BIRTH April 12, 1955