Joëlle Brupbacher (3 August 1978 – 22 May 2011) was a Swiss mountaineer. Brupbacher lived in

Muri bei Bern Muri bei Bern is a municipality in the Bern-Mittelland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. History Muri is first mentioned in 1180 as ''Mure'' while Gümligen appears in 1239 as ''Gumelingen'' or ''Gumlingin'' Archae ...

and was employed as an IT specialist with

Swiss Federal Railways Swiss Federal Railways (german: link=no, Schweizerische Bundesbahnen, ''SBB''; french: link=no, Chemins de fer fédéraux suisses, ''CFF''; it, Ferrovie federali svizzere, ''FFS'') is the national railway company of Switzerland. It is usuall ...

. She was the first Swiss woman to climb five of the fourteen

eight-thousander The International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation (UIAA) recognises eight-thousanders as the 14 mountains that are more than in height above sea level, and are considered to be sufficiently independent of neighbouring peaks. There is no ...

s. After reaching the summit of the Makalu, an 8485-metre-high mountain in Nepal, and descending to Camp 4 on 21 May, Brupbacher died of acute mountain sickness (AMS) in her tent at Camp 3 at an altitude of 7400 m on the 22 May 2011.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brupbacher, Joelle 1978 births 2011 deaths Mountaineering deaths People from the canton of Bern Swiss mountain climbers