Michael Dacher
Michael Dacher was a German mountain climber. In 1979 he and Reinhold Messner climbed the K2 in record time and without oxygen equipment.
A primary school in Khadambas, a village 80 km east of Kathmandu in Nepal, has been named after him.
Dacher was born in Peiting.
Climbs
Europe
- 1950 Geiselstein in the Ammer Mountains
- 1951 Geiselstein south face, south cut, east cut, first five-day tour
- 1952 Fleischbank, southeast face, Bauernpredigtstuhl-Alte Westwand
- 1953 Fleischbank-Südostverschneidung, Mauk, west face, Schüsselkarspitze, southeast face, Große Zinne-Norwand
- 1954 Predigtstuhl – direct west face Große Zinne, north face, 4th solo ascent
- 1955 Torre di Valgrande, northwest face, many solo tours in local Ammer Mountains
- 1956/57 first West Alpine journey, Westliche Zinne, north face
- 1959 Piz Badile, northeast face
- 1960, southwest face
- 1961 Große Zinne, direct north face
- 1962 Grandes Jorasses-Walkerpfeiler, first ice tour
- 1963 Ortler, north face
- 1964 Matterhorn, north face
- 1965/68 Oberreintaldom-Gondaverschneidung und Schießlerführe, Berggeisttum-Cukrowskiführe, Montblanc-Brenvaflanke, Blatière, west face, Sass-Maor, east face, Piz de Ciavàzes-south face
- 1969 Eiger, north face, Mont Maudit southeast arête
- 1971/72 Trollryggen, northeast face
- 1974 Cengalo, northwest pillar
- 1976, southwest face
- 1978 Triolet, north face, Grubenkarspitze, west face Karwendel
Asia
- 1973 Hindu Kush expedition, failed owing to equipment losses
- 1975 Yalung Kang , second ascent
- 1977 Lhotse im Khumbu Himalayas, without supplemental oxygen
- 1979 K2 im Karakoram with Reinhold Messner; Dacher was the first German on the K2
- 1980 Shishapangma in Tibet
- 1981 Nanga Parbat in Pakistan
- 1982 Hidden Peak, first ascent of a variation in the north face
- 1983 Cho Oyu from the southwest in Alpine style
- 1984 Manaslu
- 1985 Dhaulagiri, failed owing to sickness of a colleague
- 1986 Broad Peak
- 1987 Everest, failed owing to storms
- 1987 Gasherbrum II
- 1988 Makalu failed owing to hurricane winds
- 1990 Dhaulagiri international expedition, failed
- 1991 Everest attempt
- 1993 Mustagh Ata climbed with skis
- 1993 Everest, expedition attempt
South America
- 1992 Aconcagua, Dacher is expedition leader
Greenland
- 1970 Greenland, inland ice crossing from west to east with Franz Martin