APPLETON, WIS. — About 200 people gathered Saturday in Christine Boskoff’s hometown to say goodbye to the Colorado climber who died in China last year.
Boskoff, 39, and boyfriend Charlie Fowler, 52, died in a November avalanche while climbing Genyen Peak in a remote region of western China.
Fowler’s body was recovered in December, but poor weather had hampered the search for Boskoff’s body. It was found in July and retrieved in late September.
Services had been held for the pair in January in Telluride. The couple had a home in nearby Norwood.
Boskoff had climbed six of the highest mountains that top more than 26,000 feet.
“They had so many friends and people who admired them all over the world,” said Ginny Fowler, Charlie’s sister, of Jacksonville, Ore. “They were very giving and caring people. If there is ever going to be peace in the world, it’s going to be because of people like Charlie and Christine, embracing everyone they meet.”
Family and friends say she was also passionate about helping children.
Boskoff was on the board of directors of Room to Read, a nonprofit agency that partners with local communities throughout the developing world to establish schools and libraries.
An elementary school in her honor is being built in Nepal.
