List of Austrian mountain climbers
This is a list of Austrian mountaineers. On 5 of the 14 Eight-thousanders Austrian 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
Eight-thousanders Austrian First Ascent
- Hermann Buhl, first ascent solo and without oxygen of Nanga Parbat on the 1953 German–Austrian Nanga Parbat expedition, first ascent of Broad Peak
- Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak and Dhaulagiri
- Fritz Moravec, first ascent of Gasherbrum II together with Josef Larch and Hans Willenpart
- Marcus Schmuck, first ascent of Broad Peak, initiator and leader of the OEAV Karakoram Expedition
- Herbert Tichy, geologist, writer and mountaineer
- Fritz Wintersteller, first ascent of Broad Peak
- Hansjörg Auer Marmolada "Way of the Fish" free solo, Lupghar Sar West in the Karakoram-solo, Howse Peak with David Lama and Jess Roskelley
- Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer
- Karl Blodig, mountaineer
- Ulrike Gschwandtner, social scientist and climber, died at Gasherbrum II
- Paul Grohmann, first ascent of the four highest Dolomites
- Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen
- Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer and writer
- Conrad Kain, first ascent of Mount Robson
- Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, first woman to ascend all Eight-thousanders without supplementary oxygen
- Fritz Kasparek, many first ascents, including the Eiger north face
- Markus Kronthaler, Tyrolean mountaineer, ice climber
- Moriz von Kuffner first descent of the Mittellegi Ridge on the Eiger & first ascent of the Arête Kuffner of Mont Maudit
- David Lama Cerro Torre free climb of the compressor route, Lunag Ri solo climb, Howse Peak climbed but party lost in descent
- Paul Preuss, premier rock climber of his time
- Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
- Christian Stangl, speed climber