I think climbing is less a sport and more a hobby, and as such, I think everybody's a beginning climber.

It's going to be fun to the bitter end. Regardless the 500-foot (150 m)-wide avalanche swept over the three men. A memorial fund was establiAlex Lowed in his honor (Alex Lowe Charitable Foundation – ALCF) and thanks to this fund three years later the Khumbu Climbing School was conceived.

Lowe died in a massive slab avalanche in Tibet.