Michael Dacher

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Michael Dacher (21 August 1933 – 3 December 1994) was a German mountain climber. In 1979 he and Reinhold Messner climbed the K2 in record time and without oxygen equipment.[1]

A primary school in Khadambas, a village 80 km east of Kathmandu in Nepal, has been named after him.

Dacher was born in Peiting.

Climbs

Europe

Asia

  • 1973 Hindu Kush expedition, failed owing to equipment losses
  • 1975
    Yalung Kang
    (8,438 m) (Kangchenjunga West Peak), second ascent
  • 1977 Lhotse (8,516 m) im Khumbu Himalayas, without supplemental oxygen
  • 1979 K2 (8,611 m) im Karakoram with Reinhold Messner; Dacher was the first German on the K2
  • 1980 Shishapangma (8,046 m) in Tibet
  • 1981 Nanga Parbat (8,125 m) in Pakistan
  • 1982
    Hidden Peak
    (8,080 m), first ascent of a variation in the north face
  • 1983 Cho Oyu (8,188 m) from the southwest in Alpine style
  • 1984 Manaslu (8,163 m)
  • 1985 Dhaulagiri (8,167 m), failed owing to sickness of a colleague
  • 1986 Broad Peak (8,047 m)
  • 1987 Everest (8,848 m), failed owing to storms
  • 1987 Gasherbrum II (8,035 m)
  • 1988 Makalu (8,485 m) failed owing to hurricane winds
  • 1990 Dhaulagiri (8,167 m) international expedition, failed
  • 1991 Everest (8,848 m) attempt
  • 1993
    Mustagh Ata
    (7,546 m) climbed with skis
  • 1993 Everest (8,848 m), expedition attempt

South America

  • 1992 Aconcagua (6,962 m), Dacher is expedition leader

Greenland

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

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