Ralf Dujmovits

Ralf Dujmovits (born 1961) is a German mountaineer from Bühl in Baden-Württemberg who in May 2009 became the 16th person, and the first German, to climb all 14 eight-thousanders; his last was Lhotse on 20 May 2009, climbed with his former wife Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner. He began training as a certified mountain guide in 1985, worked for the German Alpine Club and in 1989 started his own trekking outfitter, Amical Alpin. His Himalayan climbs began with Dhaulagiri in 1990 and Everest in 1992, and in 1999 his climb of the Eiger north wall was shown as a 33-hour live television broadcast. He has also completed the Seven Summits, and a photograph he took of a long queue of climbers on Everest in 2012 went viral.