10 Facts About Dan Fredinburg

Daniel Paul Fredinburg was an American Google executive, climate activist, explorer, and entrepreneur.

Dan Fredinburg died on April 25,2015, of head injuries incurred in an avalanche at Mount Everest's Base Camp triggered by the April 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Dan Fredinburg graduated from the University of California, Irvine in 2004, earned a master's degree in intelligent robotics from the University of Southern California, and completed other graduate coursework at Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley.

Dan Fredinburg was head of privacy at Google X, an advisor on Project Loon, and the co-founder of The Laundry SF and Save the Ice.

Dan Fredinburg launched Google Adventure Team, an effort to map geological areas and formations on Earth at a similar level of detail to Google Earth's street-level view of cities, towns, and other populated areas.

Dan Fredinburg was co-inventor of more than a dozen software technologies that were patented by Google.

Dan Fredinburg, who had been on the mountain for three weeks and who had spoken of his narrow escape from the 2014 Mount Everest avalanche which killed 16 Nepalese guides, was one of four American citizens killed in the 2015 Mount Everest-South Base Camp disaster, following the 2015 Nepal earthquake.

Dan Fredinburg likened Aconcagua to a "gates of hell" experience, telling Time there were mule skeletons sticking up out of the ground.

Dan Fredinburg climbed the difficult and relatively inaccessible Puncak Jaya, the highest peak in Oceania, and was briefly jailed after descending into the nearby Grasberg mine.

Dan Fredinburg founded The Laundry, a San Francisco-based business incubator geared towards building a community and productive environment for social impact.