Sebastian Haag

Sebastian "Basti" Fabian Haag (born May 23, 1978 in Munich ; † September 24, 2014 at Shishapangma in Tibet ) was a German extreme ski mountaineer and skier as well as an ultra marathon runner .

Life

Haag grew up in Grünwald and had an older brother. His parents were part-time ski instructors in Kitzbühel . He completed his Abitur at the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium , the basic military service in the Feldjägerbataillon 760 . Until 2005 he studied veterinary medicine at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and received his doctorate in research from 2006 to 2010 at the German Heart Center Munich .

Together with his former schoolmate Benedikt Böhm , he was the record holder in ski touring racing on Muztagata . He was a member of the Dynafit Gore-Tex team. Together with Böhm and the French Nicolas Bonnet , he planned the speed ascent of Manaslu in Nepal in 2007 . Despite a long wait for favorable weather conditions in the base camp, Bonnet initially turned around again, and Böhm and Haag also had to stop the expedition because of the danger of avalanches. In 2009, he and Böhm failed in the speed ascent of Broad Peak in the Pakistani part of the Karakoram . Haag initially stayed behind, later wanted to hurry after Bohm and overestimated his strength in the process.

He was also involved in the rescue operations at Manaslu after the avalanche disaster on September 23, 2012.

Sebastian Haag died on September 24, 2014 together with the 32-year-old Italian mountaineer Andrea Zambaldi in an avalanche accident on the Shishapangma. Both belonged to Benedikt Böhm's Double8 expedition, which was supported by Ueli Steck on the second attempt . The aim of the expedition was to climb the two eight-thousanders Shishapangma and Cho Oyu in speed ski style in just seven days . They had to abandon their first attempt to climb Shishapangma a week before the accident because of fresh snow and wind and the risk of avalanches. On September 24th, they and their teammate Martin Maier were hit by an avalanche and dragged down about 600 meters in altitude. Only Martin Maier was able to free himself from the snow masses. Due to the weather conditions and a flight ban imposed by the Chinese military, the search for the bodies of the two climbers who had died had to be stopped. The rescued Martin Maier later raised allegations against Böhm and Steck.

Haag was a supporter of the organization Vets Without Borders . Among other things, he hoisted the association's banner on the summit of Kilimanjaro in July 2013 to advertise its work.

His brother Tobias fell in April 2006 at the Aiguille d'Argentière near Chamonix and was killed in the process.

Sporting successes

• 23 August 2005: Speed ​​record in high-altitude ski mountaineering in alpine style with ski descent on Muztagata together with Benedikt Böhm under the direction of Matthias Robl (difference in altitude: 3,100m; ascent time: 9h 25min; descent: 1h 16min including a 13min summit rest; total time: 10h 41min)
• August 3, 2006: Speed ​​record with a complete ski run on Gasherbrum II together with Benedikt Böhm under the direction of Luis Stitzinger
• 2013: 3rd place in the Jungle Marathon , Brazil

Movie

In 2012 , director Karsten Scheuren shot a documentary about the speed ascent of Manaslu, which was released in 2014, entitled "Seven Days in September" . The tragic avalanche accident is described at first hand, in which Sebastian Haag and Benedikt Böhm were able to save some mountain comrades, but also 11 dead, and how the record attempt is continued immediately afterwards, which is only partially successful.

Fonts

• Effect of furosemide on the pulmonary vascular bed of three-week-old lambs with intrauterine application of a large aortopulmonary shunt . Munich, Univ., Diss., 2010

Web links

• Sebastian Haag in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Sebastian Haag in the catalog of the German National Library
• Personal website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ For my brother Tobias Haag (dedication in the doctoral thesis), 2009.
2. ↑ Expedition Manaslu 8163m - Sebastian Haag ( Memento from January 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
3. ↑ Sebastian Haag , Süddeutsche, May 17, 2010.
4. ↑ About , personal website.
5. ↑ Temporausch am Manaslu ( Memento from November 21, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), Mountain2B, September 4, 2007.
6. ↑ The planned speed ascent suffocated in the snow at 7400 meters ... ( Memento from October 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), Bergstieg.at, October 16, 2007.
7. ↑ He survived in the sleeping bag of a dead comrade , tz, August 11, 2009.
8. ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Formula 1 am Berg , Welt Online, July 12, 2012.
9. ↑ Sebastian Haag was at Mount Manaslu - “I left a dying woman behind to dig for buried subjects” , Focus, December 23, 2012.
10. ↑ Sebastian Haag died yesterday under an avalanche on the Sisha Pangma.
11. ↑ Misfortune at Shisha Pangma: Two mountaineers are missing after attempting a world record in the Himalayas. In: Spiegel Online from September 25, 2014 (accessed September 25, 2014).
12. ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Avalanche death on the Shisha Pangma , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 26, 2014.
13. ↑ Disaster in the Himalayas: Bodies cannot be saved ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , Südtirol News, September 27, 2014.
14. ↑ Fabienne Riklin: Drama in the death zone. In: Switzerland on Sunday 9 July 2016.
15. ↑ ToG supporters spilled Sebastian Haag ( Memento of 28 October 2014 Internet Archive ) , VSF, September 26 boundaries, 2014.
16. ↑ An interview with extreme mountaineer Basti Haag , Powderguide, January 10, 2013.
17. ↑ The death of an extreme mountaineer , Oberbayerisches Volksblatt , September 27, 2014 (free access with Google search query "The death of an extreme mountaineer" )
18. ↑ www.explorersweb.com - The first German ski descent of G2
19. ↑ Hanna Engler: Jungle Marathon in Brazil: For the first time a German on the podium , trax.de, October 23, 2013.
20. ↑ http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/232901.html