Hans Goger (mountaineer)

Hans Goger (born November 30, 1965 in Wolfau , Burgenland ) is an Austrian adventurer, mountaineer and author.

Life

Although he grew up in a relatively flat area, he is the only Burgenlander to have succeeded in climbing mountains beyond the 8,000 meter limit. His sporting career began in the army sports and hand-to-hand combat school of the Austrian Armed Forces , where he spent three years as a professional athlete.

Hans Goger lives in his home town of Wolfau and works as a medical masseur in Bad Tatzmannsdorf . He also writes books and gives multimedia lectures about his adventures and mountain expeditions.

Professional background

Hans Goger spent his youth on his parents' farm in rather modest circumstances with six siblings. After elementary school, secondary school and the polytechnic course, he began an apprenticeship as a bricklayer, which he also completed with the skilled worker examination. In January 1985, Hans Goger completed his military service at the Turba barracks in Pinkafeld, where he came into contact with orienteering for the first time since school. The army sports and hand-to-hand combat school, which at that time had a high-performance center in the Pinkafeld barracks, noticed him and hired him as a competitive athlete and professional runner. In this three-year phase as a professional athlete, Hans Goger created a second mainstay for himself after his running career and began training as a medical masseur in Graz. He still works in this profession today.

He took part in two orienteering world championships in Denmark and Norway, achieved a title as night orienteering runner-up in national competitions and won a bronze medal in the relay competition. Hans Goger was also successful as a road runner. His best time for the 10-kilometer distance was 32 minutes and 50 seconds.

Mountaineering achievements

date	summit	height	country	annotation
1992	Chimborazo	6310 m	Ecuador
1994	Pik communizma	7495 m	Tajikistan
1997	Cho Oyu	8188 m	Tibet	First Burgenlander on an eight-thousander
1999	Denali	6194 m	United States	Crossing from west to north
2000	Mt Everest	8850 m	Tibet	Demolition after the fatal crash of a Danish expedition member
2002	Aconcagua	6969 m	Argentina	transgression
2003	Khan Tengri	7010 m	Kyrgyzstan
2005	Mt Everest	8850 m	Tibet	Successful ascent over the Tibetan northeast ridge
2006	Shisha Pangma	8046 m	Tibet
2009	Nanga Parbat	8125 m	Pakistan	Not yet repeated new route over the northwest pillar with Gerfried Göschl (AUT), Louis Rousseau (CAN), Sepp Bachmair (AUT), Günther Unterberger (AUT)
2010	Kilimanjaro	5895 m	Tanzania / Kenya	Marango route
2010	Puncak Jaya (Carstensz Pyramid)	4884 m	New Guinea
2011	Mount Kenya	5199 m	Kenya
2011	Elbrus	5642 m	Russia
2012	Kilimanjaro	5895 m	Tanzania	Machame - Mweka route
2013	Lenin Peak	7135 m	Kyrgyzstan
2016	Margherita Peak	5109 m	DR Congo / Uganda

Wilderness tours

year	description
1992	Jungle tour on the Rio Napo (Amazonia, Ecuador)
1995	Solo crossing of the Brooks Range (Alaska)
1996	Paddle through 1,000 kilometers of wild land in British Columbia, the Yukon Territory and Alaska
1999	Ski crossing on the high Arctic islands of Cornwallis and Ellesmere in the northernmost part of Canada.
2001	White water expedition on the South MacMillan River in the Canadian Yukon Territory, as well as a paddle tour on the Pelly and Yukon Rivers
2004	Trekking in Northern Pakistan (Hunza, Fairy Meadows)
2007	"Vuelta", the circumnavigation of Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre in the Argentine part of Patagonia
2008	Crossing the Brooks Range in the sub-arctic part of Alaska
2009	Tour through the Atacama desert (Chile)
2012	Circumnavigation of Dhaulagiri (8167 m) in Nepal
2013	Winter crossing of the North Slope (Alaska)
2013	Trekking tour in Sarek National Park, Swedish Lapland
2014	Circumnavigation of Manaslu (8163 m) in Nepal
2015	Solo tour through the Altiplano (Andean highlands) and the jungle areas of the Oriente (Amazonia) in Ecuador
2015	Winter tour on the "Kungsleden", Swedish - Lapland
2015	Shooting expedition in Tasiilaq, East Greenland
2017	Ski expedition and kayak tour in Tasiilaq, East Greenland

social commitment

Hans Goger is committed to aid projects. He supports this with multimedia lectures in which donations are collected for charitable projects.

year	description
2005	Charity evening in the Kursaal Bad Tatzmannsdorf, at which around € 7,000 was collected for the tsunami victims in Southeast Asia. Opening by the director of Schönbrunn Zoo, Dr. Helmut Pechlaner.
2010	Aid event for the earthquake victims in Pakistan. The donations went to the emergency organization of Rainer Göschl, the father of his expedition partner on Mount Everest and Nanga Parbat - Gerfried Göschl.
2011	Help for the hungry areas in East Africa. The proceeds of around € 4,000 went to “Doctors Without Borders”.
2015	The most successful humanitarian project to date: for the victims of the earthquake in Nepal, Helmut Pechlaner, Peter Kai (founder of the children's hospice "Sterntalerhof"), Buddhi Maya Sherpa (whose lodge in Nepal was destroyed), Hans Thurner and the "Nepalhilfe" collected over € 10,000. The entire proceeds went to “Nepalhilfe”.
2015	Charity lecture for the e.motion (Equotherapy) association in Vienna, which cares for seriously ill children.
2015	Multimedia lecture in Vienna's Urania. € 2000.- went again to "Nepalhilfe"

literature

Hans Goger: Lonely wilderness - icy peaks Schall-Verlag, Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-900533-54-0
Hans Goger: A life for adventure - Schall-Verlag, Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-900533-84-7
Jochen Hemmleb , Heike Göschl-Grünwald: Gerfried Göschl - traces for eternity. Egoth-Verlag, Vienna 2014, ISBN 978-3-902480-90-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME	Goger, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Austrian mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 30, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH	Wolfau , Burgenland