Alberto Iñurrategi

Alberto Iñurrategi

Alberto Iñurrategi (born November 3, 1968 in Aretxabaleta ) is a Spanish mountaineer . After Juanito Oiarzabal, he is the second Spaniard and the tenth person in total to have managed to climb all eight-thousanders , i.e. all 14 mountains on earth with a height of over 8,000 meters .

Iñurrategi stood on his first eight-thousander, the 8,485-meter-high Makalu , on September 30, 1991. In the following year, he climbed the highest mountain on earth, Mount Everest for the first time . On May 16, 2002, after a little over ten and a half years, Iñurrategi completed his eight-thousander collection with the 8,091-meter-high Annapurna . He was 33 years and six months old at the time, making him the youngest graduate of the 14-eight-thousander program. This record has now been broken by Mingma Sherpa and his brother Chhang Dawa . Iñurrategi reached all eight-thousand-meter peaks without the aid of bottled oxygen, which only three other climbers had succeeded before him: the South Tyrolean Reinhold Messner , the Swiss Erhard Loretan and Iñurrategi's compatriot Oiarzabal. Alberto Iñurrategi climbed 12 of the 14 eight-thousanders together with his brother Felix; he died on the descent from the 12th summit, the Gasherbrum II .

Ascent of the eight-thousanders

Iñurrategi climbed the eight-thousanders in the following order:

• 09/30/1991: Makalu (8485 m)
• 09/25/1992: Mount Everest (8848 m)
• June 24th, 1994: K2 (8611 m)
• 11.09.1995: Cho Oyu (8188 m)
• 09/27/1995: Lhotse (8516 m)
• May 6th, 1996: Kangchenjunga (8586 m)
• October 11, 1996: Shishapangma (8027 m)
• 07/13/1997: Broad Peak (8051 m)
• May 23, 1998: Dhaulagiri (8167 m)
• July 29th, 1999: Nanga Parbat (8125 m)
• 04/25/2000: Manaslu (8163 m)
• 07/28/2000: Gasherbrum II (8034 m)
• 07/08/2001: Hidden Peak (8080 m)
• May 16, 2002: Annapurna (8091 m)

See also

• List of climbers who have climbed all eight-thousanders

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Eberhard Jurgalski : Climbers who have ascended to the summits of all of the world's 14 mountains over 8000 meters. ( PDF , approx. 15  KB ) Accessed July 30, 2010 (English). 
2. ↑ Alberto Iñurrategi. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 25, 2011 ; accessed on August 16, 2010 (English / Spanish / Basque). 
3. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Pedro Lopez: Jean-Christophe Lafaille: Annapurna 2002. In: everstnews.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 . 
4. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Everest. ( PDF , approx. 355 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 . 
5. ^ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - K2. ( PDF , approx. 48 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 . 
6. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Kangchenjunga. ( PDF , approx. 42 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 . 
7. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Shisha Pangma. ( PDF , approx. 55 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 . 
8. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Nanga Parbat. ( PDF , approx. 49 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 . 
9. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski: Ascents - Gasherbrum I. ( PDF , approx. 57 KB) In: 8000ers.com. Retrieved August 4, 2010 .