Abele Blanc

Abele Blanc ( born September 2, 1954 in Aosta ) is an Italian mountaineer and mountain guide. He is the 23rd man who has climbed all eight-thousanders. After he took on his first ascent of Mount Everest bottled oxygen, he repeated the ascent in 2010 in an Italian expedition along with Silvio Mondinelli, Michele Enzio and Marco Camandona without this climb help. On summit they met alone Ascending Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, Ralf Dujmovits whose husband had stayed behind at the last camp, and together reached the summit. This Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner had a big part in the success, as they, despite the severe cold and stormy wind did not let distract from the success and how it Mondinelli later put it, " we men did not want to embarrass us." They were 400 climbers the only five who reached the summit of Mount Everest by fair means in the spring.

Thus, Abele Blanc has climbed Kangchenjunga only with the aid of bottled oxygen. Blanc closed the Ascension series on 26 April 2011 from the age of 56 years at the Annapurna.

Blanc was up to Christian Kuntners Death at the Annapurna its regular climbing partner, with whom he had planned for the International Year of the Mountain 2002, a very special project: From mid- April to mid-July 2002, all recognized the 4000 summit of the Alps should be climbed. A week-long period of bad weather made ​​it impossible for them, however, and as they reached "only" about 60 of the 84 peaks in the time allotted.

Blanc and his colleagues Camadona Marco and Marco Barmasse, were seriously injured in the avalanche on Annapurna in 2005, in which Kuntner was killed.

Blanc has announced that he wanted to complete the eight-thousand - series without bottled oxygen and to climb Kangchenjunga again. It was in 1995 joint with Sergio Martini at the mountain. During a rescue attempt for Benoît Chamoux they used bottled oxygen.