Yaà Âar UÃÂur Uluocak (1962 â 2 July 2003) was a Turkish outdoorsman, mountaineer, photographer, and editor.
Born in 1962 in Ankara, Turkey, UÃÂur attended Saint Joseph High School in Istanbul, and graduated in mechanical engineering from Istanbul Technical University.
UÃÂur started mountain climbing in 1984 with the mountaineering club at Istanbul Technical University . UÃÂur was a complete sportsman. He competed four years in rowing, ranking in first place. He was a middle- and long-distance runner for eight years, and a scuba diver and cyclist for the last two years. As a globally known mountaineer, he trained many young sportsmen, both in theoretical and practical ways.
From 1999 on, UÃÂur worked as a photographer, expedition coordinator, and editor for the Turkish nature and outdoor sports magazine Atlas. He not only wrote about his mountaineering adventures but also on mountaineering ethics and history with his friend Ahmet Köksal.
UÃÂur was an influential figure in the Turkish mountaineering community, with a very strong and dedicated personality and an extremely high intellectual capacity. He was fluent in five languages.
Professionally, he was a lecturer at the Marmara University in Istanbul and was also an active member of the Communist Party of Turkey for over 20 years.
UÃÂur Uluocak died on 2 July 2003 while on a descent in the Alarcha Mountain in Kyrgyzstan when a rock broke off and he took a fall. His body was recovered by his teammates Haldun ÃÂlkenli and Alper Ià Âñn Duran and brought to his homeland for burial. UÃÂur is the second Turkish mountaineer after Ali Kepenek to have died in a foreign country while climbing a mountain.