Zdeněk Hrubý

Zdeněk Hrubý (8 August 1956 to 8 August 2013) was a Czech mountaineer, economist and public administrator who climbed eight eight-thousanders and was among the most successful Czech mountaineers of his era. He climbed his first, Cho Oyu, in 1994, and in 2004 was awarded the ascent of the year for an alpine-style summit of Shishapangma by the MacIntyre route with Radek Jaroš, Martin Minařík and Petr Mašek. With Jaroš he received a fair play award for rescuing three climbers on Dhaulagiri, and with Marek Holeček he summited Nanga Parbat by the Kinsofer route in 2012. Outside climbing he was a Czech deputy minister of finance from 2002 to 2005 and chairman of the Czech Mountaineering Association. He died in a fall while descending Gasherbrum I in 2013.