EverestHistory.com: Wolfgang Nairz

Wolfgang Nairz Summited Everest on May 3rd, 1978, but he is probably better known as the expedition leader of the same 78 expedition in which Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler summited Everest 5 days later, becoming the first climbers to summit Everest without the use of bottled oxygen (as their own team..).

Messner and Nairz have been on many expeditions together, including the  Austrian Manaslu 72 expedition led by Wolfgang Nairz which made the first ascent via the SW face. On April 25th, Reinhold Messner, reached the Summit, Franc Jaeger and Andy Schrick disappeared on the Summit Plateau on the same day in a horrible storm....

If the name Wolfgang Nairz sounds familiar, he summited Everest on May 3rd, 1978, but he is probably better known as the expedition leader of the same 78 expedition in which Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler summited Everest 5 days later, becoming the first climbers to summit Everest without the use of bottled oxygen (as their own team..).

More soon on Wolfgang....

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