Nadezhda Oleneva

Nadezhda Alexandrovna Oleneva was a Russian mountaineer, alpinist and rock climber and a member of the Russian national mountaineering team, born on 19 November 1985 in Perm and killed in a fall on Dhaulagiri in Nepal on 14 October 2023. She took up mountaineering in 2006 on her first trip to the mountains, graduated from the Central Russian School of Mountaineering Instructors in 2017 and founded the Perm School of Mountaineering the same year. She won bronze in the rock class of the Russian Mountaineering Championship in 2019 and silver in 2020, and made more than 200 ascents between 2006 and 2023. She was twice nominated for a Piolet d'Or and was regarded as one of the most decorated and strongest female climbers in Russia. She fell more than 500 metres from about 6,680 metres on Dhaulagiri, and her body could not be recovered. The account here rests on her English Wikipedia article alone.