Dan Fredinburg One of Google's Executives Passes on

Dan Fredinburg is a longtime Googler who headed the privacy session for Google X and product management for the overall privacy team, he died this morning of a head injury after a 7.9 magnitude earthquake triggered an avalanche on Mount Everest.

An experienced climber, Fredinburg co-founded in his spare time Google Adventure, a company team that “translate the Google Street View concept into extreme, exotic locations like the summit of Mount Everest or the Great Barrier Reef off Australia,” as described by Startup Grind. He, along with fellow Googlers Michele Battelli and Flo Nagl, were scaling the world’s tallest mountain one year after an avalanche there killed 16 sherpas.
His sister Megan confirmed his passing in a post on his Instagram account. Two others in his party suffered non-life-threatening injuries, according to their mountaineering company Jagged Globe:

From Megan the Sister:
" This is Dans little sister Megan. I regret to inform all who loved him that during the avalanche on Everest early this morning our Dan suffered from a major head injury and didn't make it. We appreciate all of the love that has been sent our way thus far and know his soul and his spirit will live on in so many of us. All our love and thanks to those who shared this life with our favorite hilarious strong willed man. He was and is everything to us. Thank you."

 

 

4/25/2015