At least two American climbers, San Francisco-based Google engineer Dan Fredinburg, 33, and Dr. Marisa Eve Girawong, 29, who worked for a Seattle area mountaineering company, are among the 17 people believed to have died in the avalanches that thundered down Mt. Everest after Saturday’s earthquake.
Actress Sophia Bush, who dated Fredinburg last year, said he “was one of a kind. Fearless. Funny. A dancing robot who liked to ride dinosaurs and chase the sun and envision a better future for the world.
The avalanche smashed into the Everest Base Camp on Saturday.AP“He was one of my favorite human beings on Earth,’’ she wrote on Instagram. “He was one of the great loves of my life.”
Fredinburg died of a head injury, his sister Megan said.
Girawong, who grew up in Edison, NJ, was working at a base camp when she perished.
She attended Rutgers before specializing in mountaineering medicine at the UK’s University of Leicester, the Daily Mail reported. An avid mountain climber, she had scaled Mt. Washington and Mt. Rainer.
She died “doing the thing she loved doing most — helping others,’’ a relative wrote on Facebook.
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