Pavle Kozjek was a Slovenia

Slovenia

Slovenia , officially the Republic of Slovenia , is a country in Central and Southeastern Europe touching the Alps and bordering the Mediterranean. Slovenia borders Italy to the west, Croatia to the south and east, Hungary to the northeast, and Austria to the north, and also has a small portion of...

n mountaineering

Mountaineering

Mountaineering or mountain climbing is the sport, hobby or profession of hiking, skiing, and climbing mountains. While mountaineering began as attempts to reach the highest point of unclimbed mountains it has branched into specialisations that address different aspects of the mountain and consists...

 pioneer and a photographer.

Kozjek was born in Setnica

Setnica, Dobrova-Polhov Gradec

Setnica is a settlement that is divided between the municipalities of Dobrova-Polhov Gradec and Medvode in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia....

 near Polhov Gradec

Polhov Gradec

Polhov Gradec is a settlement in the Municipality of Dobrova-Polhov Gradec in the Upper Carniola region of Slovenia. It is the center of the Upper Gradaščica Valley. The area has been inhabited since Roman times and a Roman villa has been excavated near the town, finds from which are kept in the...

, SR Slovenia, Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia

Yugoslavia refers to three political entities that existed successively on the western part of the Balkans during most of the 20th century....

. He was a member of the Ljubljana-Matica Mountaineering Club

Ljubljana-Matica Mountaineering Club

The Ljubljana-Matica Mountaineering Club or Ljubljana-Matica Climbing Club , with its office located in Ljubljana, is the oldest and by the number of members the largest mountaineering club in Slovenia and a member of the Mountaineering Association of Slovenia...

. In 1997, he was the first Slovene climber to ascend Mount Everest

Mount Everest

Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...

 without supplemental oxygen. In October 2006, he led a new route up the southeastern face of Cho Oyu

Cho Oyu

Cho Oyu is the sixth highest mountain in the world at above sea level. Cho Oyu lies in the Himalayas and is 20 km west of Mount Everest, at the border between China and Nepal...

 in less than 15 hours and took photographs of Nangpa La shootings

Nangpa La shootings

The Nangpa La shooting incident happened on September 30, 2006. A group of unarmed Tibetan pilgrims attempting to leave Tibet via the Nangpa La pass were fired upon by Chinese border guards. Kelsang Namtso, a 17 year old nun, was killed and a number were injured...

 - an ambush of Tibetan pilgrims attempting to leave Tibet

Tibet

Tibet is a plateau region in Asia, north-east of the Himalayas. It is the traditional homeland of the Tibetan people as well as some other ethnic groups such as Monpas, Qiang, and Lhobas, and is now also inhabited by considerable numbers of Han and Hui people...

 via the Nangpa La

Nangpa La

Nangpa La is a high mountain pass between Nepal and Tibet, a few kilometres west of Cho Oyu and some northwest of Mount Everest in Himalayas.It serves as the main trade route between the Tibetans and Sherpas of Khumbu....

 pass. For his accomplishments he received the Piolet d'Or

Piolet d'Or

The Piolet d'Or is an annual mountaineering award given by the French magazine Montagnes and The Groupe de Haute Montagne since 1991...

 2006 Spectators Choice.

In August 2008, Kozjek participated in an expedition with Dejan Miškovič and Gregor Kresal trying to climb Muztagh Tower

Muztagh Tower

Muztagh Tower , is a mountain in the Baltoro Muztagh, part of the Karakoram range on the border of the Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan and the Xinjiang Uygur region of China...

 in the Karakoram

Karakoram

The Karakoram, or Karakorum , is a large mountain range spanning the borders between Pakistan, India and China, located in the regions of Gilgit-Baltistan , Ladakh , and Xinjiang region,...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. On 25 August 2008, he fell from the mountain through a cornice

Cornice (climbing)

A snow cornice or simply cornice is an overhanging edge of snow on a ridge or the crest of a mountain. They form by wind blowing snow over the crest of the mountain, so they often form on the leeward sides of mountains...

 and was reported dead a few days later. He is the 19th Slovene to die in the Himalayas

Himalayas

The Himalaya Range or Himalaya Mountains Sanskrit: Devanagari: हिमालय, literally "abode of snow"), usually called the Himalayas or Himalaya for short, is a mountain range in Asia, separating the Indian subcontinent from the Tibetan Plateau...

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External links

• Kozjek's personal blog
• Extremekanal.com, Kozjek's homepage