Ernst Schmied

Ernst Schmied was a Swiss mountaineer, born in Bern in 1924, who died on 22 March 2002. He is best known for achieving the second successful summit of Mount Everest, on 23 May 1956, as part of the 1956 Swiss Expedition to Everest and Lhotse. Before that expedition he had built a reputation for being capable on both stiff rock climbs and great ice ascents. The expedition he belonged to was the Swiss one that also climbed Lhotse, and his own place in its history rests on that second successful summit of Everest, which he reached in the spring of 1956.