Sepp Mayerl

Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp, was an Austrian mountaineer born on 14 April 1937 as the youngest of seven children in a farming family in the Tyrolean village of Göriach near Dölsach. He is renowned for making the first ascent of Lhotse Shar, a subsidiary summit of Lhotse, in May 1970 with his friend Rolf Walter, and for the first climb of Jitchu Drake in May 1983 with Werner Sucher, Albert Egger, Alois Stuckler and Toni Ponholzer. He wrote the book Der Turm in mir about the hardest summits of the world, with contributions from Reinhold Messner. At the age of 75 he fell to his death on 28 July 2012 while climbing the north ridge of the Adlerwand in the Lienz Dolomites.