Dan Fredinburg (September 8, 1981 – April 25, 2015) was a Google executive who died on April 25, 2015 of head injuries in an avalanche at Mount Everest 's South Base Camp triggered by the 2015 Nepal earthquake . Fredinburg was one of three American citizens known to have been killed in the Mount Everest-South Base Camp avalanche (at a minimum, 17 are known to have died there). The two other Americans confirmed dead were a medic and physician's assistant , Marisa Eve Girawong, from Edison, New Jersey , who worked for a Seattle -based guide service, Madison Mountaineering, and 61-year-old Tom Taplin, a filmmaker and photographer from Evergreen, Colorado , who was in the process of making a documentary about Everest Base Camp, according to his wife.