Ronald Naar

Ronald Edwin Naar (19 April 1955 – 22 May 2011) was a Dutch mountaineer known as the Netherlands' most famous adventurer.

The grave of Ronald Naar at the Petrus Banden Cemetery, the Hague

Naar was born in The Hague, and was an active climber from the 1970s onwards. He made the first ascents of Peak 6393 in the Karakoram, Djo Drake in Bhutan, Tilleketinda on Greenland and Duivelsei in Surinam. He made the first Dutch ascents of several mountains, including the Eiger (north face) and K2, and was the first Dutch climber to complete the Seven Summits.

He wrote several books about climbing.

He was criticized internationally because in 1992, high on the flanks of Mount Everest he ordered his expedition to do nothing to assist a dying Indian climber, 30 meters away from their tent camp.[1][2][3] Naar answered his critics in Leven en dood op de Mount Everest, (2004, Life and death on Mount Everest).[4]

Naar himself died while climbing on Cho Oyu on the China–Nepal border at an altitude of around 8000 metres (26,200 feet) after becoming unwell.

References
  1. JOE SIMPSON. Dead Man Waving, page 201–210 in THE ALPINE JOURNAL 1998
  2. "Dark Shadows Falling". www.mountaineersbooks.org. Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  3. Ronald Naar, 1992, Alleen de top telt, Verslag van de succesvolle expeditie naar de hoogste top ter wereld
  4. "Boekrecensie". www.hiking-site.nl (in Dutch).
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