| LC control no. | n 88226071 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dyhrenfurth, Norman G. |
| Associated country | Switzerland United States |
| Located | Austria |
| Birth date | 1918-05-07 |
| Death date | 2017-09-24 |
| Place of birth | Breslau (Germany) |
| Place of death | Salzburg (Austria) |
| Affiliation | American Mount Everest Expedition (1963) |
| Profession or occupation | Cinematographers Motion picture producers and directors Mountaineers |
| Found in | Omnibus. V. vol. 14 [MP] 1957: credits (Norman G. Dyhrenfurth, photographer) LC data base, 2-2-89 (hdg.: Dyhrenfurth, Norman G.) New York times WWW site, viewed Sept. 28, 2017 (in obituary published Sept. 27: Norman G. Dyhrenfurth; b. Norman Gunther Dyhrenfurth, May 7, 1918, Breslau, Germany (now Wroclaw, Poland); his family left for Austria in the 1920s and then settled in Switzerland, where they became citizens, before emigrating to the United States in the late 1930s; he served in the Army during World War II and became a United States citizen; d. Sunday [Sept. 24, 2017], Salzburg, Austria (where he had retired), aged 99; explorer and filmmaker who in 1963 led the first expedition of Americans to reach the summit of Mount Everest, a feat that inspired generations of mountaineers) |
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