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Gary Burrell, co-founder of Garmin International, a unit of Garmin...
Gary Burrell, co-founder of Garmin International, a unit of Garmin Ltd., died on June 12 at the age of 81. Burrell was an electrical engineer specializing in integrated avionics, designing and developing the first successful combined navigation receiver and communications transceiver (nav/comm) for the general aviation market. He held executive ...
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Paul Golbert, the founder of Pajar Canada, passed away on...
Paul Golbert, the founder of Pajar Canada, passed away on Dec. 25, at the age of 92. Pajar Canada, founded in 1963, is a five-generation family-owned footwear and outerwear company based in Montreal. Golbert was born in France in a shoemaking family, and emigrated to Canada in the 1950s, starting ...
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Markus Huber has passed away...
Markus Huber, the kind and witty German journalist who helped us to launch The Outdoor Industry Compass ten years ago, died on Nov. 8 at a hospital in Nuremberg after a long and serious illness. He was only 47 years old. A memorial service will be held for him on ...
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Hubert Schöffel, a pioneer of the outdoor industry, died...
Hubert Schöffel, a pioneer of the outdoor industry, died at the age of 88 on Aug. 8. He played a major role at the German family-owned producer of outdoor and ski clothing, which recently celebrated 50 years in the outdoor sector. Hubert Schöffel ran the family business for three ...
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Olivier Bonnet, general manager of Simond, died while climbing in...
Olivier Bonnet, general manager of Simond, died while climbing in the Mont-Blanc area in early August. He was near the Dent du Géant, which rises to an altitude of 4,103 meters, with a mountain guide. Bonnet reportedly died when a chunk of rock came off the mountain. Simond is the ...
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Ann Krcik, the long-time senior director of communication for The...
Ann Krcik, the long-time senior director of communication for The North Face, died of cancer on Feb. 27. She played a key role in developing the idea of outdoor professionals as athletes and not just adventurers. She founded Extreme Connection, a company that introduced outdoor athletes to the world through ...
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Josef “Sepp“ Wagner, former chief executive of Hanwag, passed away...
Josef “Sepp“ Wagner, former chief executive of Hanwag, passed away at the age of 96 on Jan. 26. Wagner joined the company in 1936 when it was controlled by his uncle, Hans Wagner, whose name was the inspiration for the name “Han-Wag.” After he returned to Vierkirchen from captivity in ...
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Original Buff has announced the death of its founder, Joan...
Original Buff has announced the death of its founder, Joan Rojas, after a determined fight against cancer. He was 72 years old. With his unconventional spirit, he invented a seamless bandana in microfiber to protect himself from the wind and the cold while driving his motorcycle. He used his family's ...
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Carsten von Birckhahn, brand manager and a member of the...
Carsten von Birckhahn, brand manager and a member of the executive board at Edelrid, died on July 15 in a paragliding accident in Val di Mello in the Italian Alps. Aged 49, Von Birckhahn was a driving force behind numerous innovations over his ten-year tenure at the climbing specialist company. ...
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Hervé Maneint, senior product manager at the Scott Sports Group...
Hervé Maneint, senior product manager at the Scott Sports Group for skis and ski boots, died a few days ago at the age of 56 in the area of Chamonix, hit by a falling rock while on a ski tour in the company of three other people, including two mountain ...
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Due to a technical glitch, we didn't publish the information...
Due to a technical glitch, we didn't publish the information about the death of Royal Robbins in our last issue. The famous American mountain climber, who founded the outdoor clothing firm that bears his name together with his wife Liz in 1968, passed away in March at the age of ...
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Ueli Steck, the legendary Swiss climber, died near Mount Everest...
Ueli Steck, the legendary Swiss climber, died near Mount Everest on April 30. He was 40 years old. He slipped from a slope and fell into a crevasse at an altitude of around 6,600 meters on the nearby Mount Nuptse, according to the organizers of his latest solo expedition, as ...
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Jackson Standefer, a 14-year-old boy, died on April 15 in...
Jackson Standefer, a 14-year-old boy, died on April 15 in the Grand Canyon National Park while accompanying his mother, Julie Standefer, and his step-grandmother, Lou-Ann Merrell, in the search for latter's husband, Randy Merrell, a maker of customized boots who helped in the establishment of the Merrell Boot Company in ...
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As reported by Sport Partner, Bob Kooijmans, the passionate Dutch...
As reported by Sport Partner, Bob Kooijmans, the passionate Dutch entrepreneur who founded The Nomad Company 40 years ago, died from illness on Dec. 27. In July 2014, he lost his 47-year-old son Barry, who died together with his wife and their two young daughters in the crash of a ...
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The funeral was held in Asolo's cathedral on Dec. 23...
The funeral was held in Asolo's cathedral on Dec. 23 for Luigi Parisotto, an Italian shoemaker who was closely connected with the history of the Italian ski and mountain boot manufacturing industry. He passed away on Dec. 20 at the age of 86. Luigi Parisotto started to work at the ...
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Bob Swanson, one of the original founders of Sierra Designs,...
Bob Swanson, one of the original founders of Sierra Designs, has passed away. Swanson founded the company in 1965 with George Marks, naming it after the outdoor playground he knew in California. The two friends considered that camping and backpacking should be about healthy fun, with the use of appropriate ...
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Edoardo Rabajoli, honorary chairman of Ferrino, has passed away, leaving...
Edoardo Rabajoli, honorary chairman of Ferrino, has passed away, leaving three children. In 1971, he became a shareholder of the company founded by Cesare Ferrino around 1890, with a stake of 50 percent. One of his children, Augusto Rabajoli, became joint general manager of Ferrino in 2008 along with Anna ...
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Lawrence Pugh, who accompanied VF Corporation's rise as a leading...
Lawrence Pugh, who accompanied VF Corporation's rise as a leading U.S.-based denim and sportswear company, has passed away at the age of 82. VF Corp is the owner of The North Face, Vans and Timberland along with many other sports, denim and fashion brands. Pugh was appointed president in 1980. ...
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Skip Yowell, a co-founder of JanSport, passed away at 69...
Skip Yowell, a co-founder of JanSport, passed away at 69 on Oct. 13 at his home in Kansas, following an illness. Yowell founded the company in 1967 in Seattle, Washington, together with his cousin, Murray Pletz, and a seamstress, Jan Lewis, to make backpacks for the outdoors. The company went ...
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Manuel Abad Sáenz, who founded Calzados Fal 50 years ago, passed...
Manuel Abad Sáenz, who founded Calzados Fal 50 years ago, passed away on Oct. 24 at the age of 78. He began by making vulcanized outdoor shoes for the local farmers in the region of La Rioja. The company subsequently launched a brand, Chiruca, which is regarded as the biggest brand ...
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