Kurt Diemberger

Kurt Diemberger (born 1932) is an Austrian mountaineer and the author of several books. He is the only living person who has made the first ascents of two mountains over 8,000 metres, Broad Peak in 1957 and Dhaulagiri in 1960, and with Hermann Buhl he is one of just two mountaineers to have done so. He attended university in Vienna, where he obtained two degrees, an MBA in 1955 and an M.Ed in 1962. In 1957 he was the last person to see Hermann Buhl alive before Buhl fell through a cornice on Chogolisa, an attempt that was illegal and for which Diemberger was subsequently banned. In 2013 he won the Piolet d'Or Lifetime Achievement Award.