Joëlle Brupbacher

Brupbacher lived in Muri bei Bern and was employed as an IT specialist with Swiss Federal Railways.

She would go on to be the first Swiss woman to summit five of the fourteen eight-thousanders, without using supplementary oxygen.

[2] Brupbacher was climbing Makalu with a small expedition team on the mountain that day, including her husband, Jorge Egocheaga and Oscar Fernandez.

[9] On May 21, before Brupbacher died, Egocheaga and Ramos tried to organize a rescue, however efforts were unsuccessful.

[5] After her death, her family started Joëlle Ayuda, a Nepalese non-profit organization to help disadvantaged children with education and medical care in Nepal's Makalu Valley.