List of Austrian mountain climbers

This is a list of Austrian mountaineers. On 5 of the 14 Eight-thousanders Austrians have made the first ascent, more than any other nation can claim. Out of the total of 9 Austrian mountaineers who made first ascents of Eight-thousanders, 3 have been members of the Edelweiss Club Salzburg, an association of mountaineers founded in Salzburg in 1881

Eight-thousanders Austrian First Ascent
*Hermann Buhl (1924-1957), first ascent of Nanga Parbat (1953), first ascent of Broad Peak (1957)
*Kurt Diemberger (born 1932), first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)
*Sepp Jöchler (1923-1994), first ascent of Cho Oyo (together with Herbert Tichy)
*Josef Larch (born 1930), first ascent of Gasherbrum II
*Fritz Moravec (1922-1997), first ascent of Gasherbrum II together with Josef Larch and Hans Willenpart
*Marcus Schmuck (1925-2005), first ascent of Broad Peak (1957), initiator and leader of the OEAV Karakoram Expedition
*Herbert Tichy (1912-1987), geologist, writer and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyo)
*Hans Willenpart (1927-1979), first ascent of Gasherbrum II
*Fritz Wintersteller (born 1927), first ascent of Broad Peak (1957)

Other Austrian mountaineers
*Peter Aschenbrenner (1902-1998), lead climber or leader 1932, 1934, and 1950 Nanga Parbat expeditions
*Matthias Auckenthaler (1906-1936), mountaineer (first climb of north face of Furchetta)
*Peter Aufschnaiter (1899-1973), mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)
*Karl Blodig (1859-1956), mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000m)
*Paul Grohmann (1838-1908), first ascent of the four highest Dolomites
*Peter Habeler (born 1942), first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)
*Heinrich Harrer (1912-2006), mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)
*Sepp Innerkofler (1865-1915), climber in the Dolomites
*Conrad Kain (1883-1934), first ascent of Mount Robson
*Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 1970), 11 Eight-thousanders (as of 2008, most by a woman)
*Beat Kammerlander (born 1959), sportclimber
*Fritz Kasparek (1910-1954), many first ascents, including the Eiger north face
*Markus Kronthaler (1967-2006), Tyrolean mountaineer, ice climber
*Andreas Orgler (1962-2007), extreme climber (1996 Piolet d'Or)
*Paul Preuss (1886-1913), premier rock climber of his time
*Ludwig Purtscheller (1849-1900), first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
*Christian Stangl (born 1966), speed climber
*Karl Thurwieser (1789-1865), cartographer and Alpine pioneer
*Luis Trenker (1892-1990), mountaineer, film director and writer (born in Tyrol, Austria-Hungary)
*Erich Vanis (1928-2004), mountaineer and alpinist

ee also

*Mountaineering
*List of climbers
*List of Austrians