Kammerlander Hans
He has been on thirteen 8000 m peaks and was the first person to ski down Mount Everest – 8.848 m high!
“The new Approach pole from Komperell revolutionizes telescopic poles. The stability and reliability of this pole is perfect, even in extreme weather conditions. I am really thrilled about this new development“
Born: on December 6th, 1956
Place of birth: Ahornach, South Tirol, Italy
Home: Ahornach
Profession: certified Ski instructor and ski guide
Family status: divorced
General history:
Hans was the youngest of 6 children, born into a family of mountain farmers in Ahornbach where he still lives. At eight he climbed his first mountain, the „Großen Moosstock“ 3.059 m high. This signified the start to a lot more Alpine activities. At sixteen Hans started to work on various building sites in South Tirol and joined the „Ahornacher mountain sprint“ club. As a memeber, he participated in competitions for 6 years. At eighteen he started his training to become a ski instructor and ski-guide and that’s where he met his later climbing partners Hanspeter Eisendle and Friedl Mutschlechner. In 1977 he passed the exams and got his diploma to qualify as certified Ski instructor and ski-guide. Hans made a lot of climbing tours in the Alps, among them 50 first ascents as well as 60 free solos. Hans Kammerlander who has been director of the „Alpine school South Tirol“ for many years, became famous because he climbed 13 of the fourteen 8000 m peaks, seven of them together with Reinhold Messner. He also met the Dalei Lama twice.
successful ascents of 8000+ m peaks:
Gasherbrum – double traversing: in 1984 Hans Kammerlander, together with Reinhold Messner, made the first – and up to now – the only double traversing of Gasherbrum II and Hidden Peak . Nanaga Parbat: in 1990 Hans Kammerlander climbed the 8.125 m peak together with his Swiss collegue Diego Wellig and Hans skied from the top down to the base camp. It was the first downhill skiing from an 8000 m peak and over a steep face. 24th of May 1992: Hans Kammerlander set a record time to reach the peak of Mount Everest, a record which held 10 years. Snow conditions were not optimal, therefore, Hans had to interrupt the descent on skis several times and climb down rock slabs and –steps.
His current project:
Since 2009 it is Kammerlanders goal to climb all „Seven Second Summits“, meaning - in each case, the second highest peak of a continent.
Kammerlander climbed the following 8 000 m peaks:
·Mount Everest - Lhotse - Makalu - Cho Oyu - Dhaulagiri - Annapurna - Broad Peak - Gasherbrum - Shishapangma - K2 - Kangchendzönga - Nanga Parbat - Hidden Peak
Goals:
At the moment Hans is fully occupied with all Seven Second Summits, a task he wants to complete this year as only 2 mountains remain to be conquered, one in Papua New Guinea and one in Antarctica. His motivation and ulterior motive to do this are: „ the highest peaks of all continents have become destinations in travel catalogues, they are crowded now a days. The people living around these mountains have lost part of their identity and are no longer sound. The second highest mountains are very often lonesome mountains and you experience the people as well as the surroundings there much more authentic and sincere.“
