Fredrik Sträng
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| Born |
March 25, 1977 Laxå, Örebro County, Sweden |
| Occupation | Adventurer, mountaineer |
| Website | Fredrik Sträng på nätet - www.strang.se |
Fredrik Sträng (born March 25, 1977) is a Swedish mountain climber, adventurer and documentary film maker.
Sträng was born in Laxå in Örebro County and learned to climb in the Kilsbergen mountains. He currently lives in Solna.
In 2003, Fredrik Sträng participated in the Swedish Dhaulagiri expedition which consisted of six Swedes altogether (Joakim Ahlin, Magnus Flock, Martin Emanuelsson, Fredrik Jönsson, Hans Bornefalk and Fredrik Sträng). Sträng reached the summit, together with Kami Sherpa, who was also part of the expedition.
In 2005, in a commercial expedition led by Ryan Waters, with six climbers and six high-altitude porters, Fredrik Sträng attempted to climb the north wall of Mount Everest via the northeast ridge. He turned back only 240 m from the summit because the oxygen did not work and because of an outbreak of a throat infection. Sträng reasoned that reaching the summit was not worth risking freezing some of his fingers. It has been asserted by other mountaineers that turning back – with the reason given in this case – constitutes a greater achievement than reaching the summit and suffering exposure. All porters and two clients summited, including a Swede Magnus Flock. Sträng and Flock also participated in a medical experiment conducted by Uppsala University Hospital under the supervision of researcher Stefan Branth and medical student Fredrik Wallin. The purpose was to investigate how the body is affected by hypoxia. The study found among other results that the two lost basically no fat; that at high altitudes almost all metabolism was fuelled by muscle tissue.
During the autumn of 2005 Fredrik Sträng climbed to the central peak of Shishapangma at an altitude of 8013 m.
During the spring of 2006, in another commercial expedition guided by Scott Woolums and Jamie McGuinness, Fredrik Sträng climbed Mount Everest. He used oxygen starting at Camp 2, and reached the summit with eight of the eight high altitude porters, and five of 12 fellow clients, including fellow Swede Johan Frankelius.
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