Sepp Jöchler

Josef "Sepp" Jöchler (born May 6, 1923 in Landeck ; † 1994 ) was a mountaineer from Tyrol , Austria.

Life

Sepp Jöchler was born in Landeck and trained as a master builder . With his brother Hans he succeeded in climbing the Rugglespitze-Ostwand in 1951, the first ascent of a route in VI. Difficulty level in the Verwall group . In 1952, together with Hermann Buhl , he was able to record the 8th ascent of the Eiger north face in the most adverse conditions . A year later he also climbed the north face of the Matterhorn for the 8th time .

On October 19, 1954, he and Herbert Tichy and the Sherpa Pasang Dawa Lama were the first to stand on the summit of the 8188 m high Cho Oyu , the sixth highest mountain on earth. Due to the slim style and the lack of bottled oxygen , this expedition is considered a milestone in high-altitude mountaineering .

The connecting path between the Darmstädter Hütte and the Niederelbehütte in the Verwall group is named after Jöchler .

Alpinistic services (extract)

• Serles , north face 1943
• Parseierspitze , northeast face 1950
• Rugglespitze , east face 1951 together with brother Hans Jöchler
• Dent d'Hérens , north face 1951 (10th ascent)
• Eiger , north face 1952 together with Hermann Buhl u. a. (8th inspection)
• Tofana pillar , southeast 1952
• Matterhorn , north face 1953 (8th ascent)
• Great pinnacle , north face 1953
• Cho Oyu (8188 m, Tibet), first ascent in 1954 together with Herbert Tichy and Pasang Dawa Lama
• Piz Badile , northeast face 1971
• Cima Canali , 1973 West wall (Buhl crack)

literature

• Herbert Tichy: Cho Oyu - grace of the gods. Vienna 1955.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Personal folder on Sepp Jöchler (PDF) in the historical Alpine archive of the Alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline), accessed on November 18, 2012
2. ↑ Roland Luzian, Peter Pindur, Roland Luzian, Andreas Weiskopf: Alpine Club Leader Verwall Group . Ed .: German Alpine Association , Austrian Alpine Association , Alpine Association South Tyrol . 10th edition. Bergverlag Rother , Munich 1988, p. 30 .
3. ↑ ^{a b} Herbert Tichy am Cho Oyu , Thomas Rambauske on Bergnews.com, accessed on November 18, 2012
4. ↑ Cho Oyu on Bergnews.com, accessed November 18, 2012
5. ↑ Roland Luzian, Peter Pindur, Roland Luzian, Andreas Weiskopf: Alpine Club Leader Verwall Group . Ed .: German Alpine Association , Austrian Alpine Association , Alpine Association South Tyrol . 10th edition. Bergverlag Rother , Munich 1988, p. 64 .

Web links

• Thomas Rambauske: The closeness of heaven - October 19, 1954: The first ascent of Cho Oyu. (www.bergnews.com)