After 5 nights at 7400m, with a severe brain damage and in the last hours a pulmonary oedema, Inaki Ochoa de Olza Seguin died today at 8.45 AM (12.30AM Nepal time) on the North Face of Annapurna.
Inaki Ochoa has climbed 12 of the 14 8000ers, including a new route on Shisha Pangma. He was born in Pamplona, Spain on May 29, 1967. He had his first experience on an 8000+ meter peak, Kangchenjunga, at age 22. He has since taken part in over 30 Himalayan expeditions and also worked as high altitude cameraman and guide.