What is David Lama?
[[File:David Lama.jpg|thumb|200px|Lama in February 2009]] '''David Lama''' ({{Lang-ne|डेभिड लामा}}; 4 August 1990 – 16 April 2019) was an [[Austria]]n sport climber and [[mountaineer]]. He won the European Championship in [[lead climbing]] in 2006 and the European Championship in [[bouldering]] in 2007. He was also the winner of the [[IFSC Climbing World Cup]] in 2008. He [[Retirement|retired]] from sport climbing in 2011 to focus on mountaineering. He is known for his 2012 [[First ascent|first free ascent]] of the ''compressor route'' (south-east ridge) on [[Cerro Torre]] in the [[Andes]]. Lama was born in [[Innsbruck]]. His father is a mountain guide from [[Nepal]] and his mother is Austrian. Lama, along with [[Hansjörg Auer]] and [[Jess Roskelley]], died in an [[avalanche]] on 16 April 2019. The men were climbing [[Howse Peak]] in [[Banff National Park]] of the [[Canadian Rockies]].<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/18/three-mountaineers-presumed-dead-avalanche-canada|title=Three mountaineers presumed dead after avalanche in Canada|work=[[The Guardian]]|date=19 April 2019|access-date=19 April 2019|author=Walters, Joanna}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://gripped.com/profiles/david-lama-hansjorg-auer-and-jess-roskelley-presumed-dead/|title=David Lama, Hansjorg Auer and Jess Roskelley Presumed Dead|work=Gripped|date=18 April 2019|access-date=19 April 2019}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47901708|title=Canada avalanche: Three professional climbers believed killed in Rockies|publisher=[[BBC News]]|date=19 April 2019|access-date=19 April 2019}}</ref> Their bodies were found on 21 April 2019.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/apr/22/canada-avalanche-bodies-of-three-renowned-mountaineers-found|title=Canada avalanche: bodies of three renowned mountaineers found|work=[[The Guardian]]|publisher=[[Agence France-Presse]]|date=22 April 2019|access-date=22 April 2019}}</ref> ==References== {{Reflist}} ==Other websites== {{Commons