Peter Habeler

Peter Habeler (1942) je rakouský horolezec, skialpinista a horský vůdce. Vede lyžařskou a horolezeckou školu. Od roku 1969 byl jeho spolulezcem Reinhold Messner. V roce 1974 vylezli severní stěnu Eigeru za necelých 10 hodin (rychlostní rekord). Roku 1975 vylezli alpským stylem na Gasherbrum (první osmitisícovka tímto způsobem). Roku 1978 vystoupali na Mount Everest bez kyslíku (první lidí tak vysoko bez kyslíku). Poté se dvojice Messner - Habeler lezecký rozešla. Peter Habeler poté vylezl ještě další tři osmistisícovky Cho Oyu, Kanchenjunga a Nanga Parbat. Lezení musel vzdát na K2 a Dhaulágiri. Roku 2017 zopakoval výstup na Eiger v 74 letech spolu s bvalým žákem své horolezecké školky Davidem Lamou.

Peter Habeler (1942) is an Austrian mountaineer. He began climbing with Reinhold Messner in 1969. Several accomplishments in mountaineering followed. The most notable event was the first ascent without supplemental oxygen of Mount Everest in 1978 together with Messner, which was previously thought to be impossible. Other eight-thousanders (mountains over 8,000 meters) that Habeler has summited are Cho Oyu, Nanga Parbat, Kangchenjunga and Gasherbrum I. The ascent of Gasherbrum was made with Messner in 1975, Alpine-style in three days, and is seen by some as ushering in a new era of Alpine-style ascents of eight-thousanders, in contrast to the siege tactics which had largely prevailed to this time. It was the first time an eight-thousander had been climbed Alpine-style. At age 74, he repeated an ascent on The Eiger's north face.