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Peter Habeler (born 22 July 1942) is an Austrian mountaineer. He was born in Mayrhofen, Austria. He developed an interest in mountain climbing at age six. Among his accomplishments as a mountaineer are his first ascents in the Rocky Mountains.
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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. ...
Learn about Peter Habeler, the Austrian alpinist who climbed Everest without oxygen with Reinhold Messner in 1978 and raced up the Eiger Nordwand in 1974. Read his interview and see photos of his adventures.
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.
Apr 21, 2016 · Peter Habeler was part of the historic 1978 expedition that reached the summit of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen canisters. Learn about his experience, the challenges and controversies of oxygen-less climbing, and the current attempt by Adrian Ballinger and Cory Richards.
Peter Habeler, one of the world’s greatest mountaineers who climbed Everest without oxygen with Reinhold Messner, repeats the Heckmair route on the Eiger with young alpinist David Lama. The article recounts Habeler’s remarkable career and his passion for climbing mountains.
Apr 25, 2016 · Reinhold Messner treasured his two Everest climbs: the first supplemental-oxygen-free ascent with Peter Habeler and the lonely solo of the North Face.
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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…
