2015 Event A 6.7-magnitude aftershock sets off new avalanches on Mt. Everest and frightens victims of yesterday's devastating earthquake in Nepal; Google executive Dan Fredinburg was one of at least 17 climbers on Mt. Everest who died in yesterday's disaster 2015 Event American rock climbers Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson become the first to successfully free-climb the Dawn Wall face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, a climb of 3,000 feet; the men started the climb on December 27th, 2014 2012 Event Following an avalanche that swept away nine climbers, Italian and French rescue crews recover the bodies of two climbers on Mont Blanc in the Alps 1981 Event 2 climbers fall 550 m down cliff near Angel Falls, Venezuela 1972 Event 19 mountain climbers killed on Japan's Mount Fuji during an avalanche 1901 Event Clyde Fitch's "Climbers," premieres in New York City
