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Reached the summit of Everest on May 18th, 1999 with Pascal Debrouwer. Joao reached the Summit of Everest without the use of bottled oxygen. One of the few...
	Born 11th. June 1967 in Lisbon, Portugal

Many climbs in the Alps and Pyrinees;
Cho Oyu, Nepal 1993;
Shishapangma South, Tibet 1993 (attempt);
Dhaulagiri, Nepal 1994;
McKinley, Alaska 1995 (attempt);
Nanga Parbat, Pakistan 1996 (attempt);
Aconcagua, Argentina 1996;
Ama Dablam, Nepal 1997;
Everest, Tibet 1999;
Toclaraju, Chopicalqui, Peru 2000;

2001: Gasherbrum II Summit

2002: Pumori Summit April 6th

Update 4/2002: "I got just back from Pumori where we did climbed it... it was a lot of fun and rewarding cause basically we were 3 climbers on it... the most difficult was the route finding and the route fixing and once we were only 3 persons... We did summit on the 6th April and for sure we had a lot of people looking from Everest base camp ... Now I'm heading for McKinley where I'm supposed to meet 3-4 us friends... Joao Garcia

All these climbs were made without the use of Sherpas nor bottled oxygen.

Check North side 1999, http://www.everestnews.com/qajacek.htm for additional details of Pascal death. 

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