Christine Boskoff
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Christine Joyce Feld |
| Born |
September 7, 1967 Appleton, Wisconsin |
| Died | December 4, 2006 (aged 39) (estimated) Genyen Peak, Sichuan Province, China |
| Nationality | American |
| Career | |
| Retirement age | 39 |
| Family | |
| Spouse | Keith Boskoff (m. ?-1999) |
Christine Boskoff (September 7, 1967 – December 4, 2006 (estimated)) was an American mountaineer.
Christine Joyce Feld (her maiden name) was the youngest of four children (with three older brothers) of Robin and Joyce Feld. She was born and raised in Appleton, Wisconsin, where she graduated from Appleton East High School. Upon her May 1991 graduation from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, Feld put her bachelor of science in electrical engineering degree to work for Lockheed Aeronautical Systems in Atlanta, Georgia. There she was the team leader for a group that designed software for a lighted control display for the C-130J military cargo plane.
Christine Feld Boskoff's first taste of mountaineering was a two-day climbing course in 1993; within a very short time she was climbing technical high-altitude peaks. Her first major summit was Tariji in the Bolivian Andes. Following this climb she began organizing climbing expeditions to Africa, Mexico, Europe, and North America. Climbing with her husband Keith Boskoff, in 1997 Christine Boskoff became the first North American woman to reach the summit of Lhotse. That same year, the Boskoffs purchased the adventure travel firm Mountain Madness from the estate of Scott Fischer, a mountaineer who died climbing Mount Everest in 1996. In 1999, Keith Boskoff committed suicide, leaving her a widow. Following his death Christine Boskoff continued to run Mountain Madness, still considered one of leading mountaineering schools and international guide services in America.
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