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Francys Arsentiev

American mountaineer (1958–1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Francys Arsentiev was the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest without using bottled oxygen, on May 22, 1998. She and her husband, Sergei Arsentiev, both died during the descent. Her body was visible to climbers until 2007, when it was moved from view.

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This entry incorporates text from “Francys Arsentiev” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.