Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp (14 April 1937 − 28 July 2012) was an
Austrian
mountaineer.
Mayerl was born on 14 April 1937 as the youngest of seven children into a farmer's family in the
Tyrolean village of Göriach near
Dölsach. He is renowned for making the first ascent of
Lhotse Shar — a subsidiary summit of Lhotse — in May 1970 together with his friend
Rolf Walter Rolf is a male given name and a surname. It originates in the Germanic name ''Hrolf'', itself a contraction of ''Hrodwulf'' ( Rudolf), a conjunction of the stem words ''hrod'' ("renown") + ''wulf'' ("wolf"). The Old Norse cognate is ''Hrólfr''. A ...
and for first climbing
Mt. Jitchu Drake in May 1983 with Werner Sucher, Albert Egger, Alois Stuckler and Toni Ponholzer.
Mayerl fell to his death in the
Lienzer Dolomites on 28 July 2012 while ascending the north ridge of the Adlerwand.
Climber Sepp Mayerl dead after cliff plunge
. AustrianTimes.at (July 29, 2012). Retrieved July 30, 2012. He was 75.
Further reading
* Mayerl, Sepp (Rosenheim 1984): ''Der Turm in mir. Zu schwierigsten Gipfeln der Erde.'' Rosenheimer, (with contributions by Reinhold Messner).
* Magerer, Hermann (2003): ''Bergauf Bergab 2''. Bergverlag Rother, , pp. 263−272
References
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1937 births
2012 deaths
People from Lienz District
Austrian mountain climbers
Sportspeople from Tyrol (state)