List of Austrian mountain climbers
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This is a list of Austrian mountaineers. On 5 of the 14 Eight-thousanders Austrians have made the first ascent, more than any other nation can claim. Out of the total of 9 Austrian mountaineers who made first ascents of Eight-thousanders, 3 have been members of the Edelweiss Club Salzburg, an association of mountaineers founded in Salzburg in 1881
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Eight-thousanders Austrian First Ascent
- Hermann Buhl, first ascent of Nanga Parbat (1953), first ascent of Broad Peak (1957)
- Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)
- Sepp Jöchler, first ascent of Cho Oyo (together with Herbert Tichy)
- Josef Larch, first ascent of Gasherbrum II
- Fritz Moravec, first ascent of Gasherbrum II together with Josef Larch and Hans Willenpart
- Marcus Schmuck, first ascent of Broad Peak (1957), initiator and leader of the OEAV Karakoram Expedition
- Herbert Tichy, geologist, writer and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyo)
- Hans Willenpart, first ascent of Gasherbrum II
- Fritz Wintersteller, first ascent of Broad Peak (1957)
Other Austrian mountaineers
- Matthias Auckenthaler, mountaineer (first climb of north face of Furchetta)
- Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)
- Karl Blodig, mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000m)
- Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)
- Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)
- Beat Kammerlander, sportclimber
- Markus Kronthaler, Tyrolean mountaineer 1967 - 2006
- Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
- Luis Trenker, mountaineer, film director and writer (born in Tyrol, Austria-Hungary)
- Erich Vanis, mountaineer and alpinist 1928-2004
