'Please return safely': The heartbreaking letter written for the Google engineer who died on Mount Everest

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Dan Fredinburg

A friend of the Google engineer killed in a Mount Everest avalanche triggered by the Nepal earthquake has posted a picture of a letter his friend was supposed to read at the summit.

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Dan Fredinburg died Saturday from a major head injury sustained in the devastating 7.8 quake that has killed thousands of others. Friend Max Stossel was one of many people who he asked to give him letters.

"I love you brother," Stossel wrote in the letter to his friend, which he posted on Facebook Sunday. "Please return safely."

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Stossel also wrote a heartbreaking Facebook post about Fredinburg.

"We lost one of my dearest friends yesterday. One of the most wonderful human beings any of us would have the pleasure of knowing," Stossel wrote on Facebook. "You live on through all of us that you've bettered and inspired so deeply."

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In his letter to his friend, Stossel also wrote that Fredinburg "greatly impacted" him and "pushed the human race to be the greatest."

Fredinburg was not supposed to read the letters until he made it to the top of Mount Everest, which he was surveying for Google Maps.

Read the rest of the letter below:

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