About Ole Daniel Enersen
Lived 1943 – 2024 (aged 80–81). Ole Daniel Enersen was a Norwegian journalist, writer, mountaineer, historian and photographer.
Ole Daniel Enersen (14 March 1943 – 1 January 2024) was a Norwegian climber, photographer, journalist, writer and medical historian.
Biography In 1965, Enersen made the first ascent of the Trollveggen mountain in Romsdalen, Norway, along with Leif Normann Petterson, Odd Eliassen and Jon Teigland.
He was one of the founders of the Association of Norwegian nature photographers (Norske naturfotografer) in 1976, and the first leader of the organisation.
In 2000, he published a novel in the fantasy genre, titled Dragen som elsket meg ("The dragon that loved me").
Enersen published and maintained Who Named It?, a large online dictionary of medical eponyms.
Enersen died in Oslo on 1 January 2024, at the age of 80.
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Who was Ole Daniel Enersen?
Norwegian mountain climber (1943–2024)
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Ole Daniel Enersen was born on 14 March 1943 in Oslo.
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Ole Daniel Enersen died in 2024 in Oslo.
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Ole Daniel Enersen was a journalist, writer, mountaineer, historian and photographer.
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Ole Daniel Enersen was Norwegian.
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