Google Official, Dan Fredinburg, Died In Nepal Earthquake While Climbing Everest

Fredinburg was chief security of Google X team of the organization, which is in charge of a portion of the all the more forward-looking activities enterprise search, including driver-less cars and Google Glass.

A continuous and experienced climber, Fredinburg climbed Everest with two other Google (GOOGL, tech30) employees this weekend, while a earthquake of magnitude 7.8 brought on a torrential slide. Despite the fact that the other two Googlers made due alongside other colleagues sherpas and climbing, Fredinburg succumbed to serious head damage, as per a message on his Instagram record composed by his sister.

"We appreciate all of the love that has been sent our way thus far and know his soul and his spirit will live on in so many of us," his sister Megan wrote. "All our love and thanks to those who shared this life with our favorite hilarious strong willed man. He was and is everything to us."

Fredinburg formed the Google Adventure Team, which mapped outlandish areas for Google's Street View tool. The team took 360-degree photographs of the summit of Mount Everest and the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, among others.

A Google official who stood out as truly newsworthy for dating performer Sophia Bush, Fredinburg had been posting photographs and overhauls of his experiences in Nepal on Instagram and Twitter, where he alluded to himself as an "adventurer, inventor, and energetic engineer."

Bush shared her pain on Instagram, calling Fredinburg "one of my favorite human beings" and "one of the great loves" of her life.

"Today I find myself attempting to pick up the pieces of my heart that have broken into such tiny shards, I'll likely never find them all," she wrote. "Today I, and so many of my loved ones, lost an incredible friend."

Fredinburg climb Everest with a group organized by Jagged Globe, which has offered mountain expeditions, golf, skiing and other adventure experiences during the past 20 years.

The company sent condolences expedition.

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to Dan's family and friends," read a statement on Jagged Globe's website, "whilst we pray too for all those who have lost their lives in one of the greatest tragedies ever to hit this Himalayan nation."

In a blog post, the head of Fredinburg, Google's chief privacy officer Lawrence You said the team responding to the crisis of Google has launched Person Finder to help victims families to locate their loved ones. Google is also working to get updated images to help recovery efforts satellite.
You noted that Google.org is committing $ 1 million to the response, and the company will provide matching gifts for their employees soon.

"Our thoughts are with the people of Nepal, and with Dan's family and friends during this terrible time," You wrote