Reinhold Messner

Reinhold Messner

male, 65 years old
from Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, South Tyrol, Italian, From Italy, Eight-thousander, Summiter of Mount Everest
Reinhold Messner (born September 17 1944) is a mountaineer and explorer from South Tyrol in Italy, often cited as the greatest mountain climber of...
Jerzy Kukuczka

Jerzy Kukuczka

male, deceased (1989)
Summiter of Mount Everest, From Katowice, Mountain climber, katowice, Mountaineering death, polish…Eight-thousander
Jerzy Kukuczka, born in Katowice, Poland, was a Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. On September 18 1987, he became the second man after...
Hermann Buhl

Hermann Buhl

male, deceased (1957)
World War II, nanga parbat, Austrian, climbing, war, Mountain climber…Eight-thousander
Hermann Buhl (September 21, 1924 - June 27, 1957) is considered one of the best post-war Austrian climbers and one of the best climbers of all...
Krzysztof Wielicki

Krzysztof Wielicki

male, 59 years old
Summiter of Mount Everest, Mountain climber, Szklarka Przygodzicka, polish, Explorers Club, Eight-thousander
Krzysztof Wielicki (born January 5, 1950 in Szklarka Przygodzicka, Poland) - Polish alpine and high-altitude climber. One of the most outstanding...
Ed Viesturs

Ed Viesturs

male, 50 years old
mountaineer, Kanchenjunga, Broad Peak, Summiter of Mount Everest, Eight-thousander, From Rockford, Illinois
Ed Viesturs (born June 22, 1959) is one of the world's premier high-altitude mountaineers. He is the first American, and 12th person overall, to...

Albert F. Mummery

male, deceased (1895)
Teufelsgrat, Dent du Géant, Himalayan 8,000 m peak, The Physiology of Industry, J.A. Hobson, John Atkinson Hobson…Eight-thousander
Albert Frederick Mummery (10 September 1855, Dover - August 24, 1895, Nanga Parbat), was a highly respected British mountaineer. His father was a...
Peter Habeler

Peter Habeler

male, 67 years old
Eight-thousander, nanga parbat, Mayrhofen, Big Walls, Hidden Peak, Rocky Mountains
Peter Habeler (born July 22 1942 in Mayrhofen, Austria) is an Austrian mountaineer. Among his accomplishments as a mountaineer are his first...

José Antonio Delgado

male, deceased (2006)
Venezuelan sportspeople, From Caracas, Eight-thousander, caracas, Mountain climber, Venezuelan
José Antonio Delgado Sucre was the first Venezuelan mountaineer to reach the summit of five eight-thousanders. He was one of the most experienced c...
Alan Hinkes

Alan Hinkes

male, 55 years old
University of York, From northallerton, Kangchenjunga, Eight-thousander, Order of the British Empire, mountains
Alan Hinkes OBE (April 26, 1954-) is a British mountaineer from Northallerton in North Yorkshire. Hinkes claims to be the first British mountaineer...
Anatoli Boukreev

Anatoli Boukreev

male, deceased (1997)
Russian non-fiction outdoors writer, Mountaineering death, into thin air, physics, cross-country skiing, oxygen…Eight-thousander
Anatoli Nikoliavich Boukreev (January 16, 1958 - December 25, 1997) was a Russian climber who made seven ascents of 8,000 metre peaks without...