Hans Ertl

Hans Ertl (1908 to 2000) was a German mountaineer and cameraman. His ascents include first ascents of the north faces of the Königspitze in 1930 and the Ortler in 1931, the first ascent of Sia Kangri in 1934, the first solo climb of Illimani South in 1950, and a place on the 1953 German-Austrian Nanga Parbat expedition, where he photographed Hermann Buhl returning from his solo summit. As a cameraman he worked with Leni Riefenstahl on Olympia and was conscripted as a war correspondent in 1939. After the war he fled Germany, settled in Bolivia, made expedition documentaries and farmed at La Dolorida, where he died. He was the father of the guerrilla Monika Ertl.