Ronald Naar
Ronald Edwin Naar was a Dutch mountaineer known as the Netherlands' most famous adventurer.
Naar was born in The Hague, and was an active climber from the 1970s onwards. He made the first ascents of Peak 6393 in the Karakoram, Djo Drake in Bhutan, Tilleketinda on Greenland and Duivelsei in Surinam. He made the first Dutch ascents of several mountains, including the Eiger and K2, and was the first Dutch climber to complete the Seven Summits.
He wrote several books about climbing.
He was criticized internationally because in 1992, high on the flanks of Mount Everest he ordered his expedition to do nothing to assist a dying Indian climber, 30 meters away from their tent camp. Naar answered his critics in Leven en dood op de Mount Everest,
Naar himself died while climbing on Cho Oyu in Tibet at an altitude of around 8000 metres after becoming unwell.
