Walter Nones
Walter Nones (born November 5, 1971 in Cavalese , Trentino ; † October 3, 2010 at Cho Oyu , Nepal ) was an Italian extreme mountaineer and mountain guide .
Life
Nones was born in Cavalese and grew up in Sover in the Cembra Valley . He started mountaineering as a child.
In 2004 Nones successfully climbed the K2 with Karl Unterkircher , Silvio Mondinelli , Ugo Giacomelli and Michele Compagnoni . On the descent from the summit, Mondinelli and Nones also helped two troubled Spanish mountaineers to safely reach the camp.
Nones became known to a wider public in 2008 when his mountain companion Karl Unterkircher had a fatal accident on Nanga Parbat . Together with Simon Kehrer , they had tried to reach the summit via a new route in the Rakhiot Wall . After Unterkircher's fatal fall into a crevice, Nones and Kehrer continued the ascent in pairs, as it was not possible to get out of the wall. In the course of the later descent, they were recovered by helicopter. Nones published the experiences there in 2010 together with Kehrer in the book Teufelswand. The tragedy of the Unterkircher expedition on Nanga Parbat .
As Nones 2010 together with Giovanni Macaluso and Manuel Nocker the Cho Oyu via a new route on the South West Wall tried to board, he was killed.
Nones was a trained mountain guide and instructor in Alpinzentrum the Carabinieri in Selva in Val Gardena . He was married and had two sons, the family lives in Wolkenstein.
Mountaineering achievements
- 1995 Lobuche Peak Ost (6119 m), Nepal, development of a new rock route with difficulty UIAA VII
- 2006 Mount Genyen (6240 m), China, first ascent of the north face in alpine style
- 2008 Chongra Peak North (6840 m), Pakistan, first ascent of the west ridge in alpine style
In addition, Nones also opened climbing routes with difficulty levels UIAA VII and VIII in the Italian Alps.
Publications
- Walter Nones, Simon Kehrer: Teufelswand: The tragedy of the Unterkircher expedition on Nanga Parbat , Malik, 2010. ISBN 3890293786 .
- Walter Nones, Simon Kehrer: È la montagna che chiama. La tragedia del Nanga Parbat nel racconto dei sopravvissuti Simon Kehrer e Walter Nones , 2009. ISBN 978-88-04-58841-2 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walter Nones dies on Cho Oyu . planetmountain, October 3, 2010
- ↑ "Can't hug him anymore" (Südtirol Online) ( Memento from October 6, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ W. Nones website (accessed October 4, 2010)
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Nones in the catalog of the German National Library
- official homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nones, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian extreme mountaineer and mountain guide |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th November 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cavalese , Trentino |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 3, 2010 |
| Place of death | at Cho Oyu , Nepal |