Norman Dyhrenfurth, the Swiss-American mountaineer and filmmaker is dead, Viewers Corner News team learned. In 1963, Norman Dyhrenfurth led the successful American expedition to Mount Everest where six climbers made it on the summit. He died of natural causes in a hospital at Salzburg (Austria) according to the report. In 1950s, Norman Dyhrenfurth was the head of the UCLA Film School and worked on movies like “The Eiger Sanction”, “Five Days One Summer”. Dyhrenfurth and his team of pioneering climbers represent the birth of mountaineering as a popular sport in the United States. May his soul rest in peace.
Source: Viewers Corner News