Peter Habeler

Peter Habeler (born 1942) is an Austrian mountaineer, born in Mayrhofen, Austria, who developed an interest in mountain climbing at the age of six. Among his accomplishments are first ascents in the Rocky Mountains, and he was the first European to take part in big wall climbing in Yosemite National Park. He began climbing with Reinhold Messner in 1969, and their most notable achievement was the first ascent of Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, on 8 May 1978, which had previously been thought impossible. A year after that climb he published Lonely Victory, written with Eberhard Fuchs, and he set further records by descending from the summit to the South Col.