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# Efforts continue on retrieving Puryear from Tibet
- URL: https://ktna.org/efforts-continue-on-retrieving-puryear-from-tibet/
- Published: 2010-10-29T08:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2010-10-29T08:00:00.000Z
- Description: Close friends are continuing to assist Michelle O’Neil Puryear to bring her husband back to the U.S. Joe Puryear died tragically on Labuche Kang in Tibet on Tuesday. He was
- Author: KTNA Staff
- Tags: Local News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 01:28

Close friends are continuing to assist Michelle O’Neil Puryear to bring her husband back to the U.S. [Joe Puryear](http://www.joepuryear.blogspot.com/?ref=ktna.org) died tragically on Labuche Kang in Tibet on Tuesday. He was 37 years old. Puryear’s [climbing blog](http://www.climbtibet.blogspot.com/?ref=ktna.org) is posting information about the retrieval effort and how friends can contribute. Readers can go to an article [here](http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2013276975%5Fclimber28m.html?ref=ktna.org) in the Seattle Times for a tribute to Puryear and for more information on the climb.

[Mountaineer Joe Puryear dies in Tibet](https://ktna.org/2010/10/27/mountaineer-puryear-dies-in-tibet/)