Göran Kropp

Göran Kropp (1966 to 2002) was a Swedish mountaineer, the first Scandinavian to climb Mount Everest without oxygen. On 23 May 1996 he made a solo ascent of Everest without bottled oxygen or Sherpa support, after travelling there from Sweden by bicycle and on foot. In 1972 his father took him up Galdhøpiggen, the highest peak in Scandinavia; after school he served in the Swedish Parachute Rangers, where he trained rigorously and met his future climbing partner Mats Dahlin, and in 1988 he travelled to climb his first major peak, Lenin Peak. He died on 30 September 2002.