Davo Karničar

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Davo Karničar

Before that, “Davo” Karničar (born October 26, 1962 in Zgornje Jezersko , SFR Yugoslavia ; † September 16, 2019 ibid., Slovenia ) was a Slovenian mountaineer , extreme skier and ski instructor. His most outstanding achievement was climbing all Seven Summits , including the first full descent from Mount Everest in 2000.

Life

Davo Karničar was born in Zgornje Jezersko, Slovenia, on the northwestern edge of the Steiner Alps , where he grew up with four siblings. His father was a well-known ski instructor and for over 40 years a hut keeper on the Češka koča at the foot of the Grintovec . Before he decided in his twenties to combine his two passions, climbing and skiing, he started as a junior runner in the Alpine Ski Europe Cup and the Nor-Am Cup . After his active career, he worked as a Yugoslav national coach and for a time at the beginning of the 90s as a service man for the Norwegian team.

A first success as extreme skiers celebrated Karničar 1989 when he the Eiger North Face via the route of the first ascent (Lauper) on slalom skis sailed - his own words his "toughest downhill". With his brother Andrej, who accompanied him on many expeditions, he made his first ascent of Annapurna in 1995 . During the 3300 meters of altitude, Andrej froze eight toes off. A year later, Karničar tried his hand at the northeast ridge of Mount Everest for the first time , but had to descend on foot because of a storm that killed eight people . He lost two fingers on this expedition.

Mount Everest

Karničar was able to drive through the key point Hillary Step thanks to sufficient snow conditions.

In October 2000 Karničar dared to climb the highest mountain on earth again. After he had reached the summit, he started the descent at seven in the morning and needed four hours and 40 minutes for the 3500 vertical meters over the south saddle to the base camp . The favorable snow conditions even enabled him to ski the Hillary Step , making him the first to conquer Everest entirely on skis. As early as 1970, the Japanese Yūichirō Miura made headlines when he was equipped with a parachute and departed from 8200  m . Karničar's descent, which was broadcast live on the internet thanks to specially placed cameras , made him famous all over the world. The performance, which was rated as "madness" by the Darwin Awards , earned him numerous prizes. Among other things, he was nominated for a Laureus Award as “Alternative Sportsman of the Year”.

In 2001 Karničar returned to the Khumbu region and ran the first ski school for Nepalese children on the Khumbu glacier .

Seven Summits

Spurred on by his Everest triumph, Karničar decided to try the Seven Summits . These are the highest peaks on each of the seven continents . In November 2001, a good year after Everest, he managed the descent from Kilimanjaro , Africa's highest mountain, which he managed with his 15-year-old son on short carvers . Europe's highest peak, the Elbrus, followed in May 2002 . In 2003, he went first in January from the highest mountain in South America and the American double continent , the Aconcagua , and laid in August with Australia's highest mountain, only 2,228  m measured Mount Kosciuszko after. He conquered Denali , North America's highest peak and coldest mountain on earth, in June 2004. Over two years later, in November 2006, Karničar completed his performance with the financially and logistically particularly complex Mount Vinson , the highest mountain in Antarctica .

More expeditions

On Tocllaraju , Karničar managed the most difficult descent in the Andes.

As of 2017, Karničar was able to show over 1,800 alpine tours. Other extreme career achievements include descents from the local peaks Triglav and Jalovec as well as from the eight-thousander Shishapangma and through the east face of the Matterhorn . Accompanied by a film team, in April 2006 he managed the descent over the Fritsch-Lindenbach route from Grintovec , which in the summer of III. Difficulty level is rated and is considered the most difficult ski slope in Slovenia. In June 2014 he mastered the technically most demanding descent of the Andes from Tocllaraju ( 6034  m ) in the Peruvian Cordillera Blanca, according to Red Bulletin .

Karničar thought solo mountaineering was the best training method to prepare for his extreme endeavors. He worked regularly with a Slovenian sports institute that monitored his body functions and carried out oxygen tests, for example . Like most high-altitude climbers , like on Mount Everest, he resorted to additional oxygen. However, he had to do without the device on his ski runs because the mask would have restricted his field of vision too much. On the Tocllaraju he used foldable skis for the first time, which he developed together with his supplier Elan .

For July 2017, Karničar planned the first ski run from K2 , the second highest and, according to general opinion, most dangerous mountain on earth. He had to abandon his only attempt to date in 1993 at 7,900  m and had to promise his family not to try again. As a result of a back strain in the base camp, the project failed again.

Private

Karničar was the father of seven children. Until his death he was married to his wife Petra, whom he had met in 2000. Most recently, he lived with her and three children in his parents' house in Zgornje Jezersko, where he ran a ski and mountain school and worked in the tourist office. Karničar was deeply religious and was happy to tell of a meeting with Pope John Paul II after his Everest visit. His older brother Luka died in a mountain accident in 1997 , as did his long-time partner Franc Oderlap, who was killed by a chunk of ice on Manaslu in 2009 .

In March 2016, a video appeared on the Facebook page I Love Switzerland , which was claimed to show the descent of an unknown person from the summit of the Matterhorn . The spectacular GoPro video generated two million clicks in a short space of time and even aroused the interest of the tabloids Daily Mail and Bild . A few days later it was clarified that the video was made in 2014 and was filmed by the Slovenian Davo Karničar descending from Dolgi Hrbet in the Steiner Alps .

On September 16, 2019, Karničar died while felling trees in his home municipality.

Journeys

Seven Summits

  1. Mount Everest , Asia (October 8, 2000)
  2. Kilimanjaro , Africa (November 2001)
  3. Elbrus , Europe (May 2002)
  4. Aconcagua , South America (January 2003)
  5. Mount Kosciuszko , Australia (August 2003)
  6. Denali , North America (June 2004)
  7. Mount Vinson , Antarctica (November 28, 2006)

Others

Awards

bibliography

Web links

Commons : Davo Karničar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Bernd Steinle: Mount Everest downhill skier Davo Karnicar died. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , September 17, 2019, accessed on September 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j Devon O'Neil: Davo Karničar: The last descent. In: The Red Bulletin . Red Bull , August 2017, accessed August 10, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Triumph at 29,000 Feet: The 10 Greatest Moments on Everest. Outside, April 24, 2012, accessed August 10, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Paul Harris: 'Insane' daredevil skis down Everest. The Guardian , October 8, 2000, accessed August 10, 2017 .
  5. ↑ a b c d Intervju: Davo Karničar. gore-ljudje, March 24, 2010, accessed August 10, 2017 (Slovene).
  6. ↑ Franja ZIST: Davo Karničar tik pred novim smučarskim izzivom. Večer, July 2, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2017 (Slovenian).
  7. ↑ Smučanje najtežje pri nas. gore-ljudje, April 24, 2006, accessed August 11, 2017 (Slovenian).
  8. ↑ Davo Karnicar: At 7,000 meters you work very differently. In: SkiMAGAZIN. SportCombi Verlag, May 2016, accessed on August 10, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Now THAT'S off-piste! Stomach-churning video shows daredevil SKIING from the peak of the Matterhorn. Daily Mail , March 18, 2016, accessed August 15, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Nerves of steel or absolutely crazy? - Skier goes down the Matterhorn. Image , March 19, 2016, accessed August 15, 2017 .
  11. ↑ Fake! A Facebook video about Matterhorn skiers that has been clicked a million times comes from Slovenia. watson , March 22, 2016, accessed August 15, 2017 .
  12. ↑ Statistics of 7 summits climber Karnicar. 7summits.com, archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on August 9, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Karničar, Davo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Karničar, Davorin (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian extreme skier and mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Zgornje Jezersko , SFR Yugoslavia
DATE OF DEATH 16th September 2019
Place of death Jezersko , Slovenia