Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto Explained

Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto
Birth Date:9 February 1987
Disappeared Date:5 February 2021
Disappeared Place:K2, Pakistan
Death Date:
Nationality:Chilean
Education:Diego Portales University
Occupation:Architect and Mountaineer
Known For:First to summit Lhotse and Everest without returning to base camp in less than a week

Juan Pablo Mohr Prieto (born February 9, 1987 – February 5, 2021) was a Chilean architect and mountaineer.

Biography

In 2012, he graduated as an architect from the Diego Portales University and later devoted himself to taking mountaineering and rescue courses. He created the DeporteLibre Foundation, a non-profit organization that creates public sports infrastructure in abandoned spaces.[1]

In 2017, Mohr and Sebastián Rojas managed to summit Annapurna, becoming the first Chileans to achieve this feat.[2]  In 2019, Mohr was registered in the Guinness Records for being the first person to summit Lhotse and Everest without having to return to the Base camp in less than a week, without the help of Sherpas and without oxygen.[3]  In October of the same year, he made an ascent of Dhaulagiri, also without supplementary oxygen and without the help of Sherpas.[4]

After these ascents, Mohr began to outline a project to climb to the highest summit of each of Chile's sixteen regions and build mountain shelters in all of them, declaring that “as an architect I want to design and build shelters in the highest mountains from each region to expand mountaineering in Chile",[5] also developing mountaineering workshops and training for local communities with the aim of generating a system that allows the local administration of each refuge and generating activities that promote mountain culture, with the support of the Ministry of National Assets, the National Institute of Sports and the National Tourism Service.[6]

Disappearance and discovery of body

In late 2020, Mohr traveled to K2 with Sergi Mingote to pioneer its promotion in the dead of winter. Mohr was with Mingote when he fell and died on January 16, 2021. After the death of his partner, Mohr decided to continue his attempt with the Italian mountaineer Tamara Lunger, who later could not continue either. Mohr then followed the route of ascent alongside Pakistani mountaineers Muhammad and Sajid Ali Sadpara and Icelander John Snorri Sigurjónsson. Sajid, Muhammad's 20-year-old son, was forced to return from the so-called 'bottleneck' area of K2 due to a malfunctioning oxygen regulator.[7] On Friday, February 5, when the trio was preparing to conquer the summit, they lost contact with their GPS devices, presumably frozen by the extreme cold in the area.[8]  On Saturday the 6th, the three mountaineers were reported as missing and the search began with the help of helicopters from the Pakistani army that reached up to 7000 meters, but due to adverse weather conditions they had to suspend the rescue without seeing Mohr and his companions.[9] He was declared dead on February 18, 2021.[10]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Juan Pablo Mohr : Red de Líderes Jóvenes. 2021-02-08. www.redlideres.cl.
  2. Web site: Histórico: Cordada chilena hace cumbre en el Annapurna Revista Escalando. 2021-02-08.
  3. Web site: Mostrador. El. 2020-05-25. Juan Pablo Mohr, el montañista chileno que logró un Récord Guinness en dos de las cumbres más altas del mundo. 2021-02-08. El Mostrador. es.
  4. Web site: » Juan Pablo Mohr: "Cada 'ocho mil' es más difícil que el anterior". 4 October 2019 . 2021-02-08. es-ES.
  5. Web site: S.A.P. El Mercurio. 2020-04-23. El tremendo y noble desafío por el que irá el montañista chileno que hizo historia consiguiendo un Récord Guinness Emol.com. 2021-02-08. Emol. Spanish.
  6. Web site: El Volcán Tronador en nuestra región fue la primera cumbre conquistada: Montañista Juan Pablo Mohr pretende subir las 16 cumbres más altas de cada una de las regiones del país. 2021-02-08. El Heraldo Austral. es.
  7. Web site: Missing on K2 Juan Pablo Mohr, Muhammad Ali Sadpara, John Snorri. 2021-02-08. PlanetMountain.com. en.
  8. Web site: 2021-02-06. Juan Pablo Mohr se encuentra desaparecido en la montaña K2. 2021-02-08. AS Chile. es-cl.
  9. Web site: S.A.P. El Mercurio. 2021-02-06. Se suspende por mal clima la búsqueda del montañista chileno Juan Pablo Mohr y sus compañeros, desaparecidos en el K2 Emol.com. 2021-02-08. Emol. Spanish.
  10. Web site: Jajja. Sumaira. 2021-02-18. Sadpara, two other mountaineers missing on K2 declared dead. 2021-06-29. DAWN.COM. en.