Marcel Rüedi

Marcel Rüedi (often also Marcel Ruedi ; born November 1, 1938 in Winterthur , † September 25, 1986 at Makalu ) was a Swiss mountaineer . He reached the summit of an eight-thousander ten times .

In 1980 Rüedi climbed his first eight-thousander with the Dhaulagiri . In 1981 he started a new route on the north face of the Eiger . In 1983, together with Erhard Loretan and Jean-Claude Sonnenwyl, he managed to climb the three main peaks of the Gasherbrum group within 15 days (June 16-30), reaching Gasherbrum I via a new route variant. In 1984 he climbed the peaks of Manaslu (April 30th) and Nanga Parbat (June 3rd). With that he had climbed five eight-thousanders in just twelve months. In 1985 Rüedi was the first Swiss to climb the K2 together with Norbert Joos . In the same year he reached the Shisha Pangma Central with Oswald Oelz and Diego Wellig .

In 1986 he was the first Swiss to stand on the summit of Cho Oyu together with Peter Habeler . Together with Krzysztof Wielicki, he climbed the Makalu on a new route variant in the same year. Wielicki reached the summit a few hours before Rüedi and was able to descend into the top bivouac ; Rüedi couldn't do this. Reinhold Messner , who was at Makalu at the same time, saw Rüedi slowly descend from the summit the following day. Messner himself was at Makalu La at about 7400  m at this time . Rüedi is said to have slowly but apparently safely descended the mountain to around 8000  m . Tea had already been made for him in the camp when he disappeared behind a ridge of snow and never appeared again. Messner later found Rüedi sitting, just below his camp, dead in the snow.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Short biography on Marcel Rüedi, accessed on January 5, 2009
2. ↑ Eberhard Jurgalski : Ascent and route lists for the 8000ers at www.8000ers.com, accessed on January 5, 2009
3. ↑ Messner, Reinhold: Survived - All 14 eight-thousanders, page 220

Web links

• Official website