Heinrich Roiss
Heinrich Roiss (born June 3, 1927 in Vienna ; † April 29, 1959 at Dhaulagiri ) was one of the three first climbers of the Haramosh (7409 meters) in the Karakoram .
Heinrich Roiss was considered one of the best post-war Viennese mountaineers. In 1956 he took part in the Friends of Nature expedition to Gasherbrum II with Fritz Moravec . In 1958 he was the leader of an expedition to the Haramosh , in which Franz Mandl , Stefan Pauer , Rudolf Hammerschlag and Rudolf Ebner also took part. Together with Pauer and Mandl, he stood on the summit of Haramosh on August 4, 1958 after overcoming a seven-kilometer-long ice ridge. In 1959 Roiss was a member of an Austrian expedition led by Fritz Moravec, which had set itself the goal of the first ascent of Dhaulagiri . Roiss died on April 29, 1959 as a result of falling into a crevasse near Camp II. He was buried on the Dhaula-Himal on the way to the so-called “French Pass”. Roissgasse in Mauer (23rd district) has been named after Heinrich Roiss since 1964 . There is a memorial stone on the Schneeberg that commemorates Roiss.
literature
- Fritz Moravec: Dhaulagiri. Mountain without mercy , Vienna, Österreichischer Bundesverlag 1960
- Karl Jettmar: Bronze Axes from the Karakoram. Results of the 1958 Expedition in Azad Kashmir , (Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 105, No. 1, Feb. 28, 1961, pp. 98-104) (English)
- Alpinism in Vienna , ed. v. Peter Sova, Vienna, Verlag Jugend & Volk, 1999, ISBN 3-7100-0393-8
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| SURNAME | Roiss, Heinrich |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1959 |
| Place of death | Dhaulagiri |