Michael Dacher

Michael "Michl" Dacher (born August 21, 1933 in Peiting ; † December 3, 1994 there ) was a German alpinist and extreme mountaineer . In 1979, he ascended with Reinhold Messner the K2 in record time and without oxygen. He has climbed ten eight-thousanders in his life.

For his athletic achievements he received the silver bay leaf on November 12, 1982 .

Dacher unexpectedly died of heart failure in his sleep in 1994 at the age of 61 .

A secondary school in Khadambas , a village 80 km east of Kathmandu in Nepal , and a street in his hometown of Peiting are named after Michael Dacher .

Tours

Europe

• 1950 Geiselstein in the Ammer Mountains
• 1951 Geiselstein south face, south intersection, east intersection, first five-way tours
• 1952 Meat Bank -Southeast Wall, Peasant Sermon Chair-Old West Wall
• 1953 Meat bank - south-east intersection, Mauk - west face (Buhlroute), Schüsselkarspitze - south-east face, large pinnacle north face (Comici)
• 1954 Predigtstuhl -direct west wall (4th ascent) large pinnacle north wall (Comici), 4th solo ascent
• 1955 Torre di Valgrande north-west face (Carlessoführe), many solo tours in the local Ammer Mountains
• 1956/57 first trip to the west of the Alps, western pinnacle north face (Cassin)
• 1959 Piz Badile north-east face
• 1960 Rotwand -Southwest Face (Brandler-Hasse)
• 1961 Large battlements -direct north face
• 1962 Grandes Jorasses -Walker pillar, first ice tours
• 1963 Ortler north face (Schmid)
• 1964 Matterhorn north face
• 1965/68 Oberreintaldom gondola intersection and Schießler guide, Berggeisttum-Cukrowski guide , Mont Blanc -Brenva flank, Blatière west face (Brown), Sass Maor east face (Solleder), Piz de Ciavàzes south face (Schubert)
• 1969 Eiger north face (Heckmair), Mont Maudit south east ridge
• 1971/72 Trollryggen Northeast Face (Norway)
• 1974 Cengalo north-west pillar
• 1976 Rotwand -Southwest Face (Eisensteck)
• 1978 Triolet north face, Grubenkarspitze west face (Klaus-Werner-Führe) Karwendel

Asia

• 1973 Hindu Kush expedition, failed due to loss of material
• 1975 Yalung Kang ( 8438  m ) (Kangchenjunga west summit), 2nd ascent
• 1977 Lhotse ( 8516  m ) in the Khumbu Himalayas, without an oxygen mask
• 1979 K2 ( 8611  m ) in the Karakoram with Reinhold Messner ; Dacher was the first German on K2
• 1980 Shishapangma ( 8046  m ) in Tibet
• 1981 Nanga Parbat ( 8125  m ) in Pakistan
• 1982 Hidden Peak ( 8080  m ), first ascent of a variant in the north face
• 1983 Cho Oyu ( 8188  m ) from the southwest in alpine style
• 1984 Manaslu ( 8163  m )
• 1985 Dhaulagiri ( 8167  m ), failed due to illness of a comrade
• 1985 Nanga Parbat ( 8125  m ) with Peter Habeler
• 1986 Broad Peak ( 8047  m )
• 1987 Everest ( 8848  m ), failed due to storms
• 1987 Gasherbrum II ( 8035  m )
• 1988 Makalu ( 8485  m ) failed due to hurricane storms
• 1990 Dhaulagiri ( 8167  m ) international expedition, failed
• 1991 Everest ( 8848  m ) attempt
• 1993 Mustagh Ata ( 7546  m ) climbed on skis
• 1993 Everest ( 8848  m ), attempted expedition

South America

• 1992 Aconcagua ( 6961  m ), Dacher was the expedition leader

Greenland

• 1970 Greenland , inland ice crossing from west to east ( Nansen route ) with Franz Martin

Publications

• Tear it down: Michl Dacher - the first German on the K2 . Norbert and Gregor Herler, Laibstadt 2009, ISBN 978-3-00-027813-6

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Weilheimer Tagblatt , public holiday edition from 2/3 July 2010, article: Dacher am Nanga Parbat just past death , local, page 4
2. ↑ Book presentation by Michael Dacher ( Memento of the original from December 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 28, 2010 
3. ↑ Federal Archives: Sports Awards (Silver Laurel), Signature BArch B122 / 29164

Web links

• Biography of Michl Dacher
• Dacher Michel in AlpinWiki
• Michel Dacher (Michael Dacher) in the historical alpine archive of the alpine clubs in Germany, Austria and South Tyrol (temporarily offline)
• Christoph Peters: On the 25th anniversary of Michl Dacher's death: "Michl, he was a fine guy". Merkur Online , December 2, 2019, accessed December 3, 2019 .