Tunç Fındık Explained

Tunç Fındık (born 1972, Ankara) is a Turkish professional climber, mountaineer, mountain guide, author, and motivational speaker.

Life

He is the first Turkish climber who climbed Mount Everest twice and from different routes. He summited many mountains in Turkey and abroad including eight-thousanders.^{[1] [2] [3]}

In 2023. He became the 49th person to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders.^[4]

• Mount Everest (8848 m) in 2001, Second climb north ridge route in 2007
• Cho Oyu (8201 m) in 2005
• Lhotse (8516 m) in 2006
• Dhaulagiri (8167 m) in 2009
• Makalu (8462 m) in 2010
• Kangchenjunga (8586 m) in 2011 ^{[5] [6]}
• K2 (8611 m) in 2012
• Shishapangma (8027 m) in 2013
• Manaslu (8163 m) in 2013
• Gasherbrum II (8035 m) in 2014
• Broad Peak (8047 m) in 2017 ^[7]
• Annapurna (8091 m) in 2019 ^[8]
• Gasherbrum I (8068 m) in 2019 ^[9]
• Nanga Parbat (8126 m) in 2023 ^[10]

Fındık was climbing on Nanga Parbat at the time that terrorists executed 11 people at the base camp in the 2013 Nanga Parbat massacre. His life was saved because he was at Camp 2 on the mountain when the attack took place.^[11]

Books

• Kaçkar-Verçenik Tırmanış Rehberi 'Alter Yayınları'
• Tanrıların Tahtına Yolculuk- Everest Tırmanışımın Hikâyesi 'Alter Yayınları'
• Karakurum'da 80 gün 'Geven Yayınları'
• Aladağlar'da 50 Rota 'Geven Yayınları'
• Kış Dağcılığı / Teknikler ve Taktikler 'AKUT Yayınları'
• 50 Climbing routes in the Aladag 'Geven Yayınları'
• Aladaglar haritası 1:25.000 ölçekli 'Geven Yayınları'
• İrtifa 8000- Yüksek Macera 'Tunç Fındık Yayınları'
• K2 Dağların Dağı 'Tunç Fındık Yayınları'
• Altitude 8000 'Tunç Fındık Yayınları'

Documentary

• K2 Mountain of Mountains (2014)^{[12] [13]}

See also

• List of Mount Everest summiters by number of times to the summit

External links

• Tunç Fındık Official Website
• Üç Soru Üç Cevap - Tunç Fındık'la Yeni Kitabı Üzerine
• Tunç Fındık'la 14X8000 projesi üzerine
• UIAA Tunç Fındık Haberi
• K2 Mountain of Mountain (2014) Documentary
• Skylife Röportajı Zirvedeki Türk: Tunç Fındık

Notes and References

1. http://www.tuncfindik.com Tunç Fındık Resmi Sitesi
2. Kaçkar Dag, West Face; New Alpine Rock Routes in Ala Daglar and Antalya . American Alpine Journal. 2016. Dougald . MacDonald . 0065-6925 .
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   . 90 . 13 August 2024 .
3. Web site: Member spotlight: Freedom lies in the mountains for Turkish climber Tunc Findik . UIAA. 5 October 2014. 13 August 2024 .
4. News: 17 years, 14 peaks: How Tunc Findik conquered the world’s tallest summits . TRT World. Yusuf . Kamadan . 13 August 2024 .
5. Web site: Tunç Fındık zirvede . Cnnturk.com . 2011.
6. Web site: Member spotlight: Freedom lies in the mountains for Turkish climber Tunc Findik . UIAA . International Climbing and Mountaineering Federation . 2014 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20141008212759/http://www.theuiaa.org/news-163-Member-spotlight-Freedom-lies-in-the-mountains-for-Turkish-climber-Tunc-Findik.html . 8 October 2014 .
7. https://www.dreamwanderlust.com/news/spanish-alpinist-oscar-cadiach-completes-all-14-eight-thousanders-without-help-of-oxygen
8. https://explorersweb.com/breaking-dozens-summit-annapurna-today/ Breaking: Dozens Summit Annapurna Today
9. https://explorersweb.com/tunc-findik-survived-the-2013-terrorist-attack-at-nanga-parbat-now-he-returns-to-finish-his-quest/ Tunc Findik Survived the 2013 Terrorist Attack at Nanga Parbat. Now He Returns to Finish his Quest
10. https://explorersweb.com/nanga-parbat-summits/ Nanga Parbat Summits
11. Web site: Tunc Findik Survived the 2013 Terrorist Attack at Nanga Parbat. Now He Returns to Finish his Quest . Explorers Web. 25 May 2022. Angela . Benavides . 13 August 2024 .
12. Web site: K2 Mountain of Mountains (Short 2014) - IMDb.
13. Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: K2 Mountain of Mountains - A documentary by Tunç Fındık . YouTube.