Ernst Reiss ( German: Ernst Reiss ; February 24, 1920, Davos - August 3, 2010, Basel ) - Swiss climber , participant of two Himalayan expeditions (1952, 1956), May 18, 1956 together with first to fourth in height mountain of the planet Lhotse .
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Short Biography
Ernst Reiss was born in Davos. In the first profession, an aircraft mechanic. Later he changed his profession and worked in a company producing sportswear [2] . He made many difficult ascents in the Alps [3] .
In 1952, he participated in the , during which he climbed the South Saddle Pass, and and Tenzing Norgay reached an altitude of 8611 meters (8595 m according to other sources) [4] .
In 1956, Reiss became part of the Swiss expedition to Everest- Lhotse 1956. In late April - early May, the expedition established six intermediate high-altitude camps on the way to the peaks. On May 18, Reiss and Luhsinger left Camp VI at an altitude of 7800 to storm Lhotse. Around noon, they reached the peak, where they spent 45 minutes, and at 18.15 went down to the assault camp [3] . After a short rest, Reiss and Luchsinger reached the South Saddle, from which their expedition comrades Ernst Schmied ( German Ernst Schmied ) and Jürg Marmet ( German Jürg Marmet ) made the second ever climb Everest on May 23, and a day later Dölf Raist ( German . Dölf Reist ) and Hansrudi von Gunten ( German: Hansruedi von Gunten ) made the third ascent to the third pole of the Earth [5] .
In 1959, E. Reiss's book My Climber's Way ( German: Mein Weg als Bergsteiger ) was published. Reprinted in 2013 [6] .
Ernst Reiss died on August 3, 2010 at the age of 90 in Basel .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 137506465 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Emil Zopfi . “Wir haben den höchsten Punkt des Lhotse betreten” , Neue Zürcher Zeitung (26.2.2010). Date of treatment February 28, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Victor Klenov. 50Years Of LHOTSE ASCENT Neopr . Nepal Mountaineering Association (NMA). Date of treatment February 28, 2016.
- ↑ Expeditions supported by the SFAR. Everest, autumn 1952. . Swiss Foundation for Alpine Research. Date of treatment February 28, 2016.
- ↑ ALBERT EGGLER. THE SWISS EXPEDITION TO EVEREST AND LHOTSE, 1956 // The Himalayan Journal / HW Tobin. - 1957. - Vol. 20.
- ↑ Reiss, Ernst . Deutschen Nationalbibliothek.
Links
- The history of the first conquest of the eight-thousander Lhotse and the second conquest of Everest in 1956 by the Swiss expedition + PHOTO 4sport.ua.
- Renat Kunzi . Swiss heroes of Everest at the dawn of the media era , SWI swissinfo.ch (01/22/2015).