Jeff Lowe (1950 to 2018) was an American alpinist from Ogden, Utah, known for visionary climbs and first ascents in the US and Canadian Rockies, the Alps and the Himalayas. He promoted the alpine style, in which small teams travel fast with minimal gear, is credited as the inventor of mixed climbing, and made over 1000 first ascents. He co-founded the Lowe Alpine equipment company with his brothers Greg Lowe and Mike Lowe, and was a cousin of George Henry Lowe III. For about eighteen years before he died on August 24, 2018 in Colorado he lived with a neurological disease similar to ALS.
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was an American alpinist from Ogden, Utah
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Jeff Lowe (September 13, 1950 - August 24, 2018) was an American alpinist from Ogden, Utah who was known for his visionary climbs and first ascents established in the US and Canadian Rockies, Alps and Himalayas.
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He was a proponent of the Alpine style, where small teams travel fast with minimal gear.
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was an American alpinist from Ogden, Utah
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was an American alpinist from Ogden, Utah
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