Siegfried Hupfauer

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Siegfried "Sigi" Hupfauer (born February 20, 1941 in Balmertshofen ) is a German mountaineer. He reached the peaks of eight eight- thousanders , eleven seven-thousanders, almost sixty six-thousanders and well over one hundred five-thousanders, making it one of the most successful German high-altitude mountaineers.

Life

In the 1960s, Hupfau winters first climbed some difficult routes, such as the Eiger north face on the direct route, the so-called John Harlin Climb , which he opened up in 1966 in an international team. He undertook his first expedition in 1968 to the Rupal flank on Nanga Parbat . Three years later he led a group to the highest mountain in Afghanistan , the 7,485 meter high Noshak . As a participant in the first German expedition to Manaslu under the direction of Gerhard Schmatz , he reached the summit of his first eight-thousander on April 22, 1973. On October 16, 1978 he came to Mount Everest on an expedition led by Karl Herrligkoffer . In 1980 he took part in the Shishapangma expedition led by Manfred Abelein , which was the first foreigner to reach the highest point of this Tibetan eight-thousander. Hupfauer arrived at the summit on May 12th, five days after the first rope team from this expedition.

Hupfauer is married. His wife Gabriele is also a mountaineer. They stood together on three eight-thousand-meter peaks, Broad Peak , Gasherbrum II and Cho Oyu . Sigi Hupfauer is a master toolmaker by profession, as well as a state-certified mountain and ski guide . He lives in Pfaffenhofen an der Roth (Beuren).

Tragedy on Piz Badile in 1972

At the beginning of September 1972 he and Alois Ritter set out on a rock climb through the northeast face of Piz Badile , where they met mountaineers Karl Golikow and Otto Uhl in the lower part of the wall . Despite the positive weather forecast, the four climbers got caught in an unexpectedly violent sudden fall in the weather , which led to waterfalls, snow slides and falling rocks, among other things. Since a descent was no longer an option in these conditions, the two rope teams had to bivouac in the rock face with great difficulty. Otto Uhl and Karl Golikow died in this storm of exhaustion and frostbite, while Hupfauer and Ritter were only able to reach the summit late in the night of the next day and call for help.

Ascents (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Siegfried Hupfauer (Sigi). In: Historical Alpine Archives of the Alpine Clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol. Retrieved January 31, 2012 .
  2. ↑ people . In: Deutscher Alpenverein (Ed.): Panorama. Magazine of the German Alpine Club . February 2011, p. 13 .
  3. ↑ The first Germans on Manaslu. (No longer available online.) In: Internet pages of Deutsche Welle . March 20, 2007, archived from the original on November 16, 2011 ; accessed on January 31, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / blogs.dw-world.de
personal data
SURNAME Hupfauer, Siegfried
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hupfauer, Sigi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Balmertshofen