MOUNTAINEER

Anatoli Boukreev

1958 - 1997

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Anatoli Nikolaevich Boukreev (Kazakh: Анато́лий Никола́евич Букре́ев; January 16, 1958 – December 25, 1997) was a Soviet and Kazakh mountaineer who made ascents of 10 of the 14 eight-thousander peaks—those above 8,000 m (26,247 ft)—without supplemental oxygen. From 1989 through 1997, he made 18 successful ascents of peaks above 8,000 m. Boukreev had a reputation as an elite mountaineer in international climbing circles for summiting K2 in 1993 and Mount Everest via the North Ridge route in 1995, and for his solo speed ascents of some of the world's highest mountains. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anatoli Boukreev has received more than 2,084,311 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Anatoli Boukreev is the 25th most popular mountaineer (down from 21st in 2019), the 935th most popular biography from Russia (down from 787th in 2019) and the most popular Russian Mountaineer.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

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Over the past year Anatoli Boukreev has had the most page views in the with 193,024 views, followed by Russian (147,126), and German (45,838). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (413.66%), Catalan (100.54%), and Egyptian Arabic (70.80%)

Among MOUNTAINEERS

Among mountaineers, Anatoli Boukreev ranks 25 out of 56. Before him are Kurt Diemberger, Alain Robert, John Muir, Albert F. Mummery, Lionel Terray, and Andrew Irvine. After him are Krzysztof Wielicki, Jon Krakauer, Peter Habeler, Fanny Bullock Workman, Erhard Loretan, and Riccardo Cassin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1958, Anatoli Boukreev ranks 87. Before him are Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca, Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Peter Capaldi, Miranda Richardson, Phạm Minh Chính, and Ivo Pogorelić. After him are Didier Reynders, Joan Jett, Anne Holt, Julian Sands, Rachid Taha, and Samira Said. Among people deceased in 1997, Anatoli Boukreev ranks 111. Before him are Laurean Rugambwa, Edward Mulhare, Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Lyman Spitzer, Peng Zhen, and Walter Gotell. After him are Amha Selassie, Ho Feng-Shan, Saw Maung, Harold Robbins, Luigi Villoresi, and King Hu.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Anatoli Boukreev ranks 935 out of 3,761. Before him are Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow (1877), Aleksandr Dvornikov (1961), Andrey II of Vladimir (1222), Ivan Yefremov (1908), Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin (1878), and Mikhail Yangel (1911). After him are Platon Zubov (1767), Pavel Rotmistrov (1901), Feodosia Morozova (1632), Aleksandr Privalov (1933), Konstantin Feoktistov (1926), and Grand Duke Andrei Vladimirovich of Russia (1879).

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Among MOUNTAINEERS In Russia

Among mountaineers born in Russia, Anatoli Boukreev ranks 1. After him are Yevgeniy Abalakov (1907), and Denis Urubko (1973).

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