List of Austrians - Mountaineers

Mountaineers

• Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)
• Karl Blodig, mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000m)
• Hermann Buhl, first ascent of Nanga Parbat 1953, first ascent of Broad Peak
• Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)
• Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)
• Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)
• Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, first woman to ascend all Eight-thousanders without oxygen (2011)
• Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
• Marcus Schmuck, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957 as expedition leader
• Herbert Tichy, geologist, journalist and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyu)
• Luis Trenker, mountaineer, film director and writer (born in the southern part of Tyrol then Austrian-Hungarian)
• Fritz Wintersteller, first ascent of Broad Peak in 1957