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Although G\u00f6ran Kropp\u00a0left us when he\u00a0was only 35, he managed to accomplish amazing things that most\u00a0of us can only\u00a0dream of. G\u00f6ran\u2019s fascination with mountain climbing allegedly started as early as 1972, when he was just six years old, and his father took him hiking to Norway\u2019s Galdh\u00f8piggen, the highest peak of Scandinavia at 2,469 meters above sea level. That sparked his \u201cmountain madness\u201d as he called it and he went on to climb Lenin Peak, Iliniza Sur, Cotopaxi, Illimani, Huayna Potosi, Muztagh Tower, Pik Pobeda, Illampu and many more.<\/strong>
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As the title gives away, one sunny day on October 16, 1995, Kropp just decided to hop on his Crescent Ultima and\u00a0leave Stockholm for Nepal. G\u00f6ran started off with 238 pounds of gear and food and after close to 13.000 km and seemingly endless days of solitude, he finally arrived at the Mount Everest Base Camp in April 1996.<\/p>\n

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Not only this trip was insane though,\u00a0his Mount Everest experience was even more hard core. Quoting John Rothchild, who spoke about Kropp\u2019s experience in a documentary: \u201cBefore Kropp, more than 900 people have gone up the Mount Everest summit the easy way (sucking canned air) and a few had soloed the macho way (no canned air) but nobody had soloed the super macho way (no canned air, no baggage tote from rent-a-yak, no caddying from Sherpas, no food from the well-stocked mess hall, no plane ride to Kathmandu). Kropp was up to challenge. He rode his bike to Everest, lugged his own gear to base camp climbed the mountain solo without any supplement oxygen, reached the summit, and then biked home.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Getting the nickname \u201cCrazy Swede\u201d now?<\/p>\n

Again, it\u2019s Rothchild who puts it into the right words. \u201cTo outdo Kropp, you\u2019d have to climb Everest backwards.\u201d And what\u2019s Kropp\u2019s piece of mind on this demanding and dangerous journey? \u201cI wanted an adventure that was truly unprecedented.\u201d You be the judges of his sanity. But in fact, he wasn\u2019t just a mere lunatic, wishing to strain himself to death. Before he actually climbed to the peak, he once turned back 350 feet from the summit because it was getting dark and too late for him to get back down safely.<\/p>\n

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Sadly, Kropp died in a climbing accident up the Air Guitar route near Frenchman Coulee in Vantage, Washington, on September 30, 2002. His gear ripped out from the rock and the impact of the fall killed him instantly. He was only 35 but as we said above, G\u00f6ran already managed to make such a huge mark on the world he\u2019ll be remembered forever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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