Jost Kobusch

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Jost Kobusch in the tent

Jost Kobusch (born August 3, 1992 in Bielefeld ) is a German mountaineer and book author.

Life

Kobusch grew up in Borgholzhausen . He has five sisters. His parents divorced early. He grew up with his father, a carpenter, and in the care of various au pair girls. At the age of twelve he started climbing in a climbing group at the Peter-August-Böckstiegel-Gesamtschule in Borgholzhausen. Kobusch finished school with a high school diploma and did voluntary military service as a mountain hunter in Berchtesgaden .

Kobusch has lived in Chemnitz since 2016 and studies Sports Engineering at the Technical University of Chemnitz .

climber

In October 2013, Kobusch traveled to Kyrgyzstan to climb Lenin Peak , but had to cancel the ascent due to bad weather. On December 24th, 2013 at 8:12 p.m. he was the first to climb the previously unnamed Pik Yoko (4048 meters). A few days later, the first ascent was officially recognized by Community Based Tourism Kyrgyzstan.

In April 2014, Jost Kobusch climbed the Ama Dablam solo and without artificial oxygen. He is the youngest solo climber on the summit.

On the morning of April 25, 2015, Kobusch filmed an avalanche triggered by an earthquake from the base camp on Mount Everest, which devastated parts of the base camp, "at least 19 people lost their lives and more than 60 were seriously injured". Thanks to this video on YouTube, Kobusch achieved “instant global recognition”. The film sequence reached over 23 million views within a few days. After the avalanche accident, Kobusch gave interviews, including in Spiegel Online and on Sat.1 breakfast television .

On May 1, 2016, Kobusch reached the summit of Annapurna (8091 meters) over the northern flank without the aid of artificial oxygen . It was Kobusch's first summit success on an eight-thousander. This makes him “the youngest and only eighth German mountaineer to have reached this summit.” Kobusch was on the road without Sherpas, but used the “fixed ropes laid by the Sherpas” of the 30 other climbers who reached the summit that day. With the Israeli mountaineer Nadav Ben Yehuda , he played a game of blitz chess below the summit , documented on film by a US mountaineer. "Kobusch wants to register the game as the highest chess game ever played for the" Guinness Book of Records "."

In October 2017 Kobusch succeeded in the first ascent of the 7,296 meter high Nangpai Gosum II . Until Kobusch's solo ascent without artificial oxygen, the mountain was considered the fourth highest unclimbed mountain on earth. From the Advanced Basecamp (5560 meters), Kobusch needed three days via Camp 1 (6400 meters) and Camp 2 (6840 meters) to the summit, which he reached on October 3, 2017. He assessed the difficulty of the ascent with TD (Tres Difficile) according to the International French Adjectival System (IFAS). For this achievement, Kobusch was included in the 2017 selection list - Significant ascents des Piolet d'Or , but was “empty” at the 2018 award.

At the turn of the year 2019/2020, Kobusch planned an attempt to winter ascent of Mount Everest, which many mountaineers saw as critical and not very promising . At the end of February he broke off the attempt at 7,360 meters because he was no longer in top form.

Inspections (selection)

  • 2014: Solo ascent of Ama Dablam without artificial oxygen
  • 2016: Inspection of Annapurna without artificial oxygen
  • 2017: First ascent of Nangpai Gosum II, solo and without artificial oxygen
  • 2018: Opening of the Way of the Ancestors route to the top of the Carstensz pyramid
  • 2019: First ascent of Amotsang (6393 m) in the Nepalese Damodar Himal

Writings and documentation

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jost Kobusch: What the youngest 8000 conqueror thinks about the pension fund , boerse-online.de , February 2, 2019
  2. ↑ Oliver Hach: Ice cold. In: Free Press . September 20, 2019, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b Between the media hype: professional mountaineer Jost Kobusch enjoys the home visit , Haller Kreisblatt , May 29, 2019
  4. Jumped from death by the shovel , Schwäbische Zeitung from June 1, 2018 ( genios.de )
  5. ↑ Borderline experiences of a solo mountaineer: ARTE accompanied TU student and professional mountaineer Jost Kobusch on a solo ascent to Mont Blanc - broadcast on February 13, 7:40 p.m. , tu-chemnitz.de, February 13, 2019
  6. ↑ On Lenin Peak, he was at the mercy of the forces of nature , novostan.org, April 17, 2014
  7. ↑ "For the Kyrgyz, my idea was crazy". In: Novastan German. March 27, 2014, accessed October 8, 2019 (German).
  8. ↑ Lenin Peak 7143m Solo. In: jostkobusch.com. Retrieved October 9, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Interesting Facts About Ama Dablam. MountainJourney.com, November 16, 2017, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Ama Dablam Solo Record! (video included). Gripped. The Climbing Magazine, June 29, 2014, accessed November 24, 2019 .
  11. ↑ a b Hannes Vollmuth: Mountaineer Jost Kobusch films an Everest avalanche and comes to dubious fame. How does he feel about it now? Süddeutsche Zeitung , November 10, 2015, accessed on October 15, 2019 .
  12. ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Bergsteiger filmed the avalanche as it left the base camp. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 27, 2015, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
  13. ↑ Everest: Jost Kobusch plans a solo winter ascent. alpin.de - Das Bergmagazin online, August 28, 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019 .
  14. ^ Stephan Orth : Himalayan mountaineer Jost Kobusch. "At 22 you feel immortal". Spiegel Online , April 30, 2015, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  15. ↑ Sat1 breakfast television 11/24/2015 mountaineer Jost Kobusch reports. In: YouTube. Jost Kobusch, November 28, 2015, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  16. ↑ a b c Jost Kobusch climbs Annapurna. In: bergstieg.com. Alpinverlag Jentzsch-Rabl, May 12, 2016, accessed on October 15, 2019 .
  17. ↑ a b c Checkmate at the summit of Annapurna. Deutsche Welle , May 13, 2016, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Michael Levy: Jost Kobusch To Attempt Everest's West Ridge, Solo, in Winter. Rock and Ice Magazine, October 2, 2019, accessed on November 10, 2019 (English): "I used the lines Sherpas put up, ..."
  19. ↑ Ascents - Spring 2016 (updated July 1, 2019). The Himalayan Database, July 1, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  20. ^ Raheel Adnan: Carlos Soria Summits Annapurna at the Age of 77 Years; 30 More Ascents / (Updated). Explorersweb.com, May 1, 2016, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  21. ↑ Chess in the death zone - the highest chess game in the world: Jost vs. Nadav at 8071m. In: YouTube . Jost Kobusch, June 26, 2016, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  22. ↑ a b c Nangpai-Gosum II first ascent Kobusch: "Very difficult". Deutsche Welle , October 17, 2017, accessed on October 12, 2019 .
  23. ↑ Editor: Alpin. Jost Kobusch: Success on Nangpai Gosum II: first ascent in the Himalayas. In: Alpin Magazin. October 17, 2017, accessed October 8, 2019 .
  24. ↑ 2017 - Significant ascents. In: Internet Archive. Piolet d'Or , accessed October 15, 2019 .
  25. ↑ Mountaineering "Oscars" awarded: Piolets d'Or: These are the 2018 winners. In: alpin.de. September 26, 2018, accessed October 15, 2019 .
  26. ↑ Young extreme mountaineer Jost Kobusch spiegel.de
  27. ↑ 27-year-old from Bielefeld fails solo winter ascent of Mount Everest spiegel.de
  28. ↑ 1,488 meters from the finish line: Jost Kobusch breaks off a record attempt on Mount Everest
  29. ↑ Anwesha Ghosh: Interview: German alpinist Jost Kobusch on his epic journey to establish a new line on Carstensz Pyramid. Dream Wanderlust Society, September 15, 2019, accessed November 10, 2019 .
  30. ^ Noel Gonzalez: Primera en solitario al Amotsang de 6393 metros. Alpinismonline Magazine, November 6, 2019, accessed November 9, 2019 (Spanish).
  31. ^ ARTE Re: Going it alone on Mont Blanc. Borderline experiences of a solo mountaineer. Spiegel Online , accessed November 9, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kobusch, Jost
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German extreme mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1992
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielefeld , Germany