Christian Stangl

Christian Stangl at the summit of
Cho Oyu (8188 m)

Christian Stangl (born July 10, 1966 in Landl ) is an Austrian mountaineer and mountain guide .

High altitude climbers

He became known as the Skyrunner through numerous particularly fast ascents of high mountains. His most important success in 2013 was the completion of the ascent of the three highest mountains on all seven continents, the so-called Triple Seven Summits - he was the first mountaineer to climb all 21 peaks.

On January 15, 2013, Stangl was the first person to conquer the Seven Second Summits , the second highest mountains on all seven continents. On August 23, 2013 he stood on Mount Shkhara (5193 m) and was the first person to successfully climb the Seven Third Summits , the seven third highest peaks. Stangl had not only climbed the classic Seven Summits , but also the three highest peaks on every continent.

For the 21 peaks of the Triple Seven Summits, Stangl climbed a total of 30 peaks due to some measurement and definition issues and was thus able to rule out any errors. On September 17, 2013, his achievements were certified by the Guinness Book of Records in London.

In 2010, Stangl became known to a wide audience when he had to admit that he had not reached the summit of K2 ( 8611  m ) as previously claimed. In 2012 he was able to reach the highest point of K2 without a doubt. Since then he has been climbing the summit several times. All 21 peaks of his Triple Seven Summits project have been verified multiple times.

Life and ventures

Childhood and youth

Christian Stangl was born in Landl in the east of the Gesäuse Alpine National Park in 1966 . After leaving school, he completed a five-year training course as an electrical engineer ( HTL ). A little later he started climbing and undertook his first high-altitude tours in the western Alps . The first solo and speed ascents, enchaînements and winter ascents soon followed , mainly in the Gesäuse. In 1989 he began training as a mountain guide .

High altitude mountaineering

With the altitude mountaineering Christian Stangl started in the early 1990s; in the South American Andes he climbed several six-thousanders including the 6961-meter-high Aconcagua (1990). While trying to climb his first seven-thousander, the 7,285  m high Ogre , he was seriously injured by an avalanche in 1991. This was followed by an attempt at Latok II (7108 m) in 1993 and other high Andean peaks. In 1998, Stangl reached his first eight-thousander with the Shisha Pangma , the ascent was via the "British route" in the south face. In the next few years, Stangl attempted the first ascent on Gasherbrum I and in 2001 was able to record a solo ascent of Cho Oyu , the new route he took in the process joins the Tichy route from 1954 at 7000 m.

Beginning of "Skyrunning"

From 1995, on the occasion of quick ascent of high Andean peaks, Stangl developed the idea of ​​trying out high-altitude mountaineering "for a while" and making use of the lower material requirements for quick, one-day ascents. In 2002 he climbed the Aconcagua in 4 hours 25 minutes from the base camp to the summit, which he describes as his first skyrun . In 2003 he undertook his first series Skyrun with his “Jogging High Project”, which covered nine six-thousanders in 18 days. The following year he attempted the first ascent of an eight-thousander in one day on Broad Peak and reached Kibo in 5 hours 36 minutes. In 2005, Stangl climbed ten six-thousanders in the Andes in seven days, followed by three six-thousanders in one day in 2006 and four six-thousanders in one day in 2008 (Prinacota, Pomerape, Acotango, Guallatiri).

In his theoretical conception of Skyrunnings to Stangl oriented alpine style and described his commission style themselves as "super alpine style". This refers to the renouncement of fixed high camps, carriers and additional oxygen. Stangl, however, used the fixed ropes laid by other teams and left traces , if available, so that his ascent style often deviates from the alpine style in decisive points.

Seven Summits Speed ​​Project

With the first ascent of Mount Everest within one day in 2006, Stangl began his attempt to climb all Seven Summits , the highest peaks on the continents, in the skyrunning style. He successfully completed this project on December 7, 2007 with a new record on Mount Vinson. He gives the total time for climbing all seven peaks at 58 hours and 45 minutes, which is about an eighth of the usual time.

The individual times for this company were:

• Mount Everest : 16:42
• Aconcagua : 4:25; record
• Denali : 16:45
• Elbrus : 5:18; record
• Kibo : 5:36
• Mount Vinson : 9:10; record
• Carstensz pyramid : 0:49; record

Seven Second Summits

As a continuation of his Seven Summits Speed ​​project , Stangl also pursued the goal of climbing the second highest continental peaks, the so-called Seven Second Summits , in the skyrunning style and thus being the first to complete both the Seven Summits and the Seven Second Summits. He had already set his sights on several peaks for this project in 2007, he climbed the Ojos del Salado (6893 m) in the Andes and the Ngga Pulu (4862 m) on the island of New Guinea, which belongs to Oceania .

In 2008, Stangl climbed several of the highest mountains in Antarctica on a long expedition . Stangl reached the summit of Mount Shinn (4,660 m) on a new direct route through the south face. Also the Mount Gardner (4587 m) could be climbed, but the second highest mountain on the continent, the 4,852 meter high Mount Tyree succeeded on this expedition not a successful summit.

In the summer of 2008, Stangl undertook his first expedition to K2 , the second highest mountain in Asia at 8,611 meters. The mountain is considered dangerous and very difficult to climb. After eleven mountaineers were killed as a result of an ice avalanche at the "Bottleneck" (approx. 8200 m), Stangl and most of the other mountaineers stopped their expeditions (see K2 tragedy 2008 ). Stangl had previously reached an altitude of 8100 meters on the Abruzzi spur.

At the beginning of 2009, Stangl managed to climb the 5,199 meter high Batian in Africa and in September he climbed the 5,224 meter high Dychtau in the Caucasus, and he also made another attempt to climb the K2. When attempting the summit, an international team, including Stangl, reached an altitude of around 8,300 meters; waist-deep snow prevented a summit success. Since 2009, Stangl has been publicly pursuing his project under the title “14 Seven Summits” .

In 2010, Stangl first climbed the Puncak Trikora (4730 m) in Oceania, then the second highest mountain in North America, the 5959 meter high Mount Logan in Canada and in the summer went to the Pakistani Karakoram for the third time to climb the K2.

With the ascent of the second highest peaks of Oceania (see table ) in January 2013, Stangl was finally the first person who had successfully climbed the second highest peaks of the seven continents.

Controversy about the K2 2010

Stangl wanted to book a special mountaineering achievement on August 12, 2010 in the course of his “14 seven summits” project. He said he had reached the summit of K2 (8611 m), the second highest mountain on earth , at 10 a.m. Stangl had been on the road for a total of 70 hours on this tour, that would have been a record time. He would also have been the first mountaineer since 2008 to have reached the summit of K2. For the project he christened “14 Seven Summits”, which means the ascent of the Seven Summits and the Seven Second Summits , the Styrian still lacks Mount Tyree , which Stangl wanted to climb in December 2010.

However, doubts arose very quickly about this ascent. According to the mountaineers who were at the K2 at the same time as Zsolt Török, George Dijmarescu and Maxut Zhumayev, there were no traces of Stangl on the path he himself described. In her opinion, he could not have taken the route described by Stangl.

The weather in the pictures of the ascent of the summit also did not match the conditions prevailing on the day of the description. The pictures show a sunny day, in contrast to the observations made by the climbers on K2.

Furthermore, after returning from K2, Stangl was in the best of health and there was no sign of exhaustion. On the same day, Stangl went home. Two inaccurate photos remained the only evidence of the summit success, as he had neither cell phone nor GPS device with him.

When asked, Stangl himself stated that he did not want to comment on this topic, but shortly afterwards responded to the allegations in an email and justified the imprecise summit photo with the fact that he had stood alone on the summit and partly during the descent to have taken a different route and not to have met the other mountaineers.

On September 7, 2010, Stangl admitted that he had not reached the summit of K2. The supposed summit photo was taken about 1,000 meters below the summit. Stangl stated that he was under so much pressure that he only imagined the climb to the summit. According to media reports from September 8, 2010, Stangl never left the base camp at an altitude of 5,300 m. Since the weather on the day in question does not match the sky on the “summit photo” and the photo was taken near camp 3 after a comparison with earlier images, it is assumed that it comes from an earlier experiment.

Triple Seven Summits

World map of the Triple Seven Summits, the three highest peaks on all seven continents

The K2 scandal had caused Stangl to radically rethink, he withdrew from the public for a time, but after a long break he continued his ascent on the seven continents. He had expanded the Seven Second Summits project , from now on his aim was to be the first person to climb the three highest mountains on all seven continents, the so-called Triple Seven Summits (“21 world mountains in the 21st century”). For Stangl, this also included turning away from speed mountaineering; he now placed much greater emphasis on the exact documentation of his successes (photos, videos, GPS tracks).

At the end of 2010 he managed to climb the Pico de Orizaba (5,636 m, Mexico), the third highest mountain in North America. In the spring of 2011, Stangl rode a simple military bike from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas, then hiked 11 days to the base camp of Kangchenjunga (8,586 m), and after a total of 76 days was able to reach the summit of the third highest mountain in Asia. In the professional world he earned some recognition for this eight-thousand-meter tour by fair means . In summer 2011 we went to K2 again, but like since 2008, no climber was able to reach the summit from the Pakistani side this season.

For the end of 2011, Stangl planned an expedition to climb Mount Tyree (4,852 m), the second highest mountain in Antarctica. Since the Seven Second Summits were only an intermediate goal for Stangl in his 21 World Summit project , he invited his competitor Hans Kammerlander to climb Mount Tyree together. On January 3, 2012, all three expedition members, Stangl, Kammerlander and the Austrian Robert Miller, reached the summit of Mount Tyree via the east face and the northeast ridge.

In February 2012, Stangl made another trip to New Guinea; previously, inaccurate and partly outdated measurements had caused considerable uncertainties for the ranking of the highest mountains in Oceania. The German alpine chronicler Eberhard Jurgalski had pointed out that extensive NASA measurements from 2000 ( Shuttle Radar Topography Mission , SRTM) show that the Puncak Mandala is higher than the Puncak Trikora. The ascent of the Puncak Mandala (4,758 m) took place on February 28, 2012 via the north side. As on previous ascents, Stangl used GPS technology to gain additional security, he confirmed the US radar measurements. (see Seven Second Summits )

A new K2 expedition followed in summer 2012; the conditions this time were much better than in previous years. In the late evening of July 30th, Stangl and the Polish mountaineer Adam Bielecki began their decisive ascent directly from Camp III (7,400 m) and reached the summit of the second highest mountain in the world at 8,611 meters the next day at around 4 p.m. The climbers had completed the ascent without additional oxygen and reached camp III again after a total of 23 hours.

After the success at K2, Stangl could devote himself to the last remaining mountains of his project. In December 2012 he climbed the Rwenzori (5,109 m) on the border between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda . The GPS measurements confirmed that the Margherita Peak (highest peak of the Rwenzori massif) is only the fourth highest mountain in Africa.

New geographical insights prompted Stangl to undertake another New Guinea expedition in January 2013. The employees of the US Internet platform Peakbagger.com published a list of the Seven Second Summits in 2012, in which Sumantri was listed for the first time as the second highest mountain in Oceania with a height of 4870 meters and topographical prominence 350 meters . Stangl had climbed several other peaks in New Guinea over the years, but couldn't ignore this information as he sought full international recognition of his achievements. Stangl climbed the Sumantri on January 13, 2013 and made measurements with GPS. He then confirmed the new findings and had to correct his own list of the Triple Seven Summits accordingly.

At the end of January 2013, Stangl also climbed the three highest mountains on the Australian mainland, Mount Kosciuszko (2,228 m), Mount Townsend (2,209 m) and Mount Twynam (2,195 m) in the Snowy Mountains of New South Wales ( Bass criteria ) .

To complete the project, Stangl traveled to the Caucasus and on August 23, 2013, together with the Georgian Archil Badriashvili and the Austrian Michael Haidn, climbed the 5193 meter high Shkhara over the south face . The third highest mountain in Europe was the last mountain for the Triple Seven Summits.

Stangl's successes were then confirmed by chronicler Eberhard Jurgalski , the Guinness World Records commission and numerous international alpine journalists.

Balance sheet

Guinness World Records

By Guinness World Records Stangl were awarded a total of three mountaineering records:

• First climber on the Triple Seven Summits , achieved in a period of seven years (Mount Everest 2006 - Shkhara 2013).
• First climber on the Seven Second Summits , achieved in a period of six years (Ojos del Salado 2007 - Sumantri 2013).
• First climber on the Seven Third Summits , achieved in a period of five years (Mount Shinn 2008 - Shkhara 2013).

Table of the Triple Seven Summits

The following table gives an overview of the most important dates of Christian Stangl's ascents for the Triple Seven Summits project. It is essentially based on a list drawn up by Eberhard Jurgalski in 2013. The numbering took into account that there are actually 21 mountains, whereby the alpine tradition recognizes two slightly different variants with the lists of Bass and Messner , the bass version (B) and the more demanding Messner version (M).

No.	date	mountain	height	continent	Ascent series	M.	B.	Remarks
1	May 25, 2006	Mount Everest	8,848 m	Asia	Seven Summits	✔	✔	North route, Skyrun 16:42, without additional oxygen
2	November 23, 2007	Aconcagua	6,961 m	South America	Seven Summits	✔	✔	1990, 2002, 2007. Skyrun 4: 25h (2002, record)
3	May 26, 2007	Denali	6,194 m	North America	Seven Summits	✔	✔	West Buttress Route, Skyrun 16:45
4th	February 13, 2009	Kibo	5,895 m	Africa	Seven Summits	✔	✔	Rongai Route, Skyrun 5: 36h (2004)
5	June 3, 2012	Elbrus	5,642 m	Europe	Seven Summits	✔	✔	2004, 2006, 2012. Skyrun 5: 18h (2006, record)
6th	December 7, 2007	Mount Vinson	4,892 m	Antarctica	Seven Summits	✔	✔	2007, 2009. Skyrun 9: 10h (2007, record)
7a	April 8, 2007	Carstensz pyramid	4,884 m	Oceania / Australia	Seven Summits	✔		North Face, Harrer Route, Skyrun 0: 49h (record)
7b	January 27, 2013	Mount Kosciuszko	2,228 m	Oceania / Australia	Seven Summits		✔
8th	July 31, 2012	K2	8,611 m	Asia	Seven Second Summits	✔	✔	Southeast ridge (Abruzzi), without additional oxygen
9	February 24, 2007	Ojos del Salado	6,893 m	South America	Seven Second Summits	✔	✔	Summit: 1996, 2007. Skyrun 3: 44h (2007)
10	May 22, 2010	Mount Logan	5,959 m	North America	Seven Second Summits	✔	✔	King Trench Route
11	September 6, 2009	Dychtau	5,205 m	Europe	Seven Second Summits	✔	✔	Northwest ridge
12	February 6, 2009	Batian	5,199 m	Africa	Seven Second Summits	✔	✔	Nelion east face and ridge transition to Batian
13	January 3, 2012	Mount Tyree	4,852 m	Antarctica	Seven Second Summits	✔	✔	Route over the NE ridge and east face
14a	January 15, 2013	Sumantri	4,870 m	Oceania / Australia	Seven Second Summits	✔		South flank, traverse of Ngga Pulu and Sumantri
14b	January 28, 2013	Mount Townsend	2,209 m	Oceania / Australia	Seven Second Summits		✔
15th	May 20, 2011	Kangchenjunga	8,586 m	Asia	Seven Third Summits	✔	✔	Southwest flank, without additional oxygen
16	December 21, 2008	Monte Pissis	6,795 m	South America	Seven Third Summits	✔	✔	Route over the north flank
17th	December 16, 2010	Pico de Orizaba	5,636 m	North America	Seven Third Summits	✔	✔	Route via Refugio Piedra Grande
18th	23rd August 2013	Shkhara	5,193 m	Europe	Seven Third Summits	✔	✔	Southeast wall
19th	February 12, 2009	Mawenzi	5,148 m	Africa	Seven Third Summits	✔	✔	Öhler route variation
20th	November 25, 2008	Mount Shinn	4,660 m	Antarctica	Seven Third Summits	✔	✔	First ascent of the direct south face, solo
21a	February 28, 2012	Puncak mandala	4,758 m	Oceania / Australia	Seven Third Summits	✔		New route over the NW flank
21b	January 28, 2013	Mount Twynam	2,195 m	Oceania / Australia	Seven Third Summits		✔

Ascents in addition to the Messner version

In addition to the 21 mountains of the Messner version , which Stangl regards as the actual "21 world mountains", Stangl climbed nine other peaks on three continents in order to meet all definitions and to clear up some ambiguities.

• In order to satisfy the bass version as well, he climbed the three highest mountains on the Australian mainland: Mount Kosciuszko, Mount Townsend and Mount Twynam (see 7b, 14b, 21b in the table).
• In 2013, he climbed the three highest mountains in the Alps again as part of the project: Mont Blanc (4,810 m), Dufourspitze (4,634 m) and Dom (4,545 m). In geography it is one of several common doctrines to draw the border between Europe and Asia north of the Caucasus along the Manytn lowlands . The Alps would be the highest mountains in Europe and the three highest mountains in the Alps would be the three highest on the continent.
• Three other peaks were climbed due to temporary uncertainties regarding the altitude: Ngga Pulu (2007) and Puncak Trikora (2010) in Oceania and the Rwenzori (Margherita Peak) in Africa (2012).

Other undertakings and private matters

Christian Stangl already went on long bike tours in his youth. In 1985 he drove across the Alps in 28 days, climbing the Matterhorn , Mont Blanc , Eiger , Piz Palü , Cevedale , Königsspitze and Ortler . In 2005, Stangl crossed the Atacama Desert in a north-south direction in 34 days alone, covering a distance of 900 kilometers. As a training, he goes on long bicycle tours, for example in 2001 he drove from Admont to Gibraltar in 21 days . As part of the Triple Seven Summits in 2013, Stangl drove from Austria to the Caucasus and back with the entire expedition luggage.

Christian Stangl lives in Hall near Admont ( Styria ) and works as a state-certified mountain and ski guide and as a project manager. He gives multimedia lectures about his ascents and leads seminars for executives.

literature

• Christian Stangl, Ernst Kren : Skyrunner. Incredible climbs by an alpine protagonist. Leykam Buchverlag , Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-7011-7642-7 .

Web links

• Project website by Christian Stangl
• Mountain guide Christian Stangl

Individual evidence

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11. ↑ Richard Sale, Eberhard Jurgalski, George Rodway: Challenge 8000ers: the highest mountains in the world in the 21st century. Tyrolia, Innsbruck / Vienna 2013. p. 108f.
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13. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h} Christian Stangl: Curriculum Vitae - Activities since 1985 ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed November 23, 2014 
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15. ↑ Stangl, Kren: Skyrunner , p. 158
16. ↑ Slideshow with time information on sueddeutsche.de. Retrieved February 1, 2010 . 
17. ↑ Climb Magazine, March 2010, pp. 67–74: Antarctica 2008–2009 ( PDF ). Tour description Shinn p. 67 f. (English), route sketch p. 74.
18. ↑ ^{a b c} Christian Stangl: K2 - SUMMIT on July 31, 2012 - 8,611m - without bottled oxygen ( memento of the original from February 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed November 23, 2014 
19. ↑ Harry Kikstra: The Seven Second Summits - the hard challenge ( English ) Retrieved April 11, 2016.
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21. ↑ Controversy over Stangl summit victories on bergstieg.com. Retrieved September 1, 2010 . 
22. ↑ Ascent "only imagined" on ORF.at. Retrieved September 8, 2010 . 
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32. ↑ Christian Stangl: Puncak Mandala ( Memento of the original from April 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed November 23, 2014 
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38. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Stangl: Mawenzi ( Memento of the original from April 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed November 23, 2014 
39. ↑ Christian Stangl: Sumantri - the second highest of Oceania ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. , accessed October 23, 2014 
40. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski (8000ers.com): Table of the highest, second highest and third highest mountains on the continents , retrieved from skyrunning.at ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. on December 20, 2013 
41. ↑ Chris Myagar: Peakbagger.com - Ngga Pulu (English), accessed December 20, 2013
42. ↑ NZZ.ch: Triple Seven Summits - A race for 21 summits , accessed on December 20, 2013.
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44. ↑ ^{a b} Christian Stangl: Curriculum Vitae - Activities since 1985 ( Memento of the original from August 11, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Ascent dates and additional details (routes, etc.) are taken from the pages on the 21 mountains on Stangl's website (skyrunning.at), menu Triple Seven Summits . 
45. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski (8000ers.com): Alpine History - Triple Seven Summits finished (August 27, 2013) , accessed on December 12, 2014
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