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Kurt Diemberger (born 16 March 1932) is an Austrian mountaineer and author of several books. He is the only living person who has made the first ascents on two mountains over 8,000 metres: of Broad Peak in 1957 and of Dhaulagiri in 1960. In 2013, he won the Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award.
Kurt Diemberger (born on 16 March 1932 in Austria), living legend of mountaineering, high-altitude filmmaker and photographer, author of several books, recipient of the 2013 Piolet d’Or Lifetime Achievement (after Walter Bonatti, Reinhold Messner, Doug Scott and Robert Paragot), is one of the founding fathers of Mountain Wilderness and still ...
Kurt Diemberger. Born in 1932 in Villach, Austria, Kurt spent much of his youth exploring the mountains. He began his summers in the western Alps when the ice was in good condition, and ended them on the rock of the Dolomites in September.
After his fellow team members left the mountain, Rouse joined forces with six climbers—Austrians Alfred Imitzer, Hannes Wieser, Willi Bauer, and Kurt Diemberger; a Polish climber, Dobrosława Miodowicz-Wolf; and another British climber, Julie Tullis—in an attempt to summit via the conventional route, without a permit.
Mar 16, 2022 · On the journey to K2, the second highest mountain on earth in Pakistan, both mountaineering legend Kurt Diemberger and I contracted diarrhea that put us out of action for two days.
Mar 7, 1991 · Kurt Diemberger is one of only two climbers to have made first ascents of two 8000-metre peaks, Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri. A superb mountaineer, the K2 trauma left him physically and emotionally ravaged, but it also marked him out as an instinctive and tenacious survivor.
Aug 2, 2016 · In part 2 of our interview with Kurt Diemberger, he talks about record chasers and Shaksgam Valley.
Feb 14, 1988 · One wonders why Julie Tullis's first Himalayan outing, as assistant and sound recordist for the Austrian mountaineer-movie maker Kurt Diemberger, was not her last.
At 60, Kurt Diemberger is a grand veteran of climbs around the world. Mountains are not the main part of his life—they are, he writes, “what we are living for”. Since his youth he has been devoted to mountains as climber, photographer, writer and lecturer.
Kurt Diemberger is one of only two climbers to have made first ascents of two 8000-metre peaks, Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri. A superb mountaineer, the K2 trauma left...
