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Peter Habeler (born 22 July 1942) [1] is an Austrian mountaineer. He was born in Mayrhofen, Austria. He developed an interest in mountain climbing at age six. [2] Among his accomplishments as a mountaineer are his first ascents in the Rocky Mountains.
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- Peter Habeler
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Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler grew up fifty miles apart in the Tyrol, the peaks of the Wilder Kaiser and Dolomites yawning from their doorsteps. Messner was born in Villnoss, on the Italian side of the Tyrol, in 1944, the second-oldest of nine brothers and sisters. His father had been a soldier on the Eastern Front—Hitler’s doomed Operation Ba...
Peter Habeler was born two years before Messner, in 1942, on the Austrian side of the Tyrol in Mayrhofen, where he still lives. When he was just five, his father died, and Habeler began spending more time with his grandfather, who encouraged the diminutive youth’s mountain forays. Local mountain guides soon augmented his skillset. “When I was ten o...
In the small coterie of climbers, Messner and Habeler were bound to run into each other. In 1965, a mutual climbing partner invited Messner to attempt a winter ascent of the Tofana pillar, one of the Dolomites’ classic walls. The third climber was Habeler, twenty-two at the time. The twenty-year-old Messner had heard plenty about his contemporary. ...
On 8 May 1978 Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler became the first to climb Mount Everest (8848m) without supplemental oxygen. The barrier-breaking undertaking deemed impossible that forever changed Himalayan mountaineering and raised the bar for all future ascents.
Peter Habeler (* 22. Juli 1942 in Mayrhofen, Zillertal) ist ein österreichischer Bergsteiger, Kletterer und Bergführer. 1975 war er der erste Mensch, der einen Achttausender (den Hidden Peak) ohne Sauerstoff im Alpinstil bestieg – dies war ein Durchbruch im Höhenbergsteigen.
Apr 21, 2016 · April 21, 2016. • 10 min read. When Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler trekked to Everest Base Camp in 1978, they were the only two people on Earth who believed they weren’t marching toward...
Apr 15, 2016 · From the 2008 BMFF Program: Growing up in Mayrhonfen, Austria, Peter Habeler was naturally drawn to the mountains, and his passion for extreme climbing was sparked at an early age. By 16, he had...
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In 1978 he and Austrian Peter Habeler were the first to climb Mount Everest (29,035 feet [8,850 metres]; see Researcher’s Note: Height of Mount Everest), the highest mountain in the world, without the use of contained oxygen for breathing, and two years later he completed the first solo ascent of….