Alberto Iñurrategi

Alberto Iñurrategi ( born November 3, 1968 in Aretxabaleta ) is a Spanish mountaineer. He is by Juanito Oiarzabal the second Spaniard and the tenth person as a whole, the ascent of all eight-thousanders, so all 14 mountains on earth with an altitude above 8000 meters, succeeded.

On his first eight-thousanders, the 8485 -meter peak Makalu, Iñurrategi was on 30 September 1991. The following year he ascended the first time the highest mountain on earth, Mount Everest. On 16 May 2002, after more than ten and a half years Iñurrategi completed the 8091 meter Annapurna his eight-thousand - collection. He was old at that time 33 years and six months, so then the youngest graduate of the 14 eight-thousanders program. This record has since been undercut by Mingma Sherpa and his brother Chhang Dawa. Iñurrategi reached all eight thousand meter peaks without the aid of bottled oxygen, which was only three other climbers succeeded before him: the South Tyrolean Reinhold Messner, the Swiss Erhard Loretan and Iñurrategis compatriot Oiarzabal. 12 of the 14 eight-thousanders ascended Alberto Iñurrategi together with his brother Felix; of these died during the descent of 12 peaks, Gasherbrum II

Ascents of eight-thousanders

Iñurrategi has climbed the eight-thousanders in the following order:

  • 30.09.1991: Makalu ( 8485 m)
  • 25.09.1992: Mount Everest ( 8848 m)
  • 24.06.1994: K2 ( 8611 m)
  • 11.09.1995: Cho Oyu ( 8188 m)
  • 27.09.1995: Lhotse ( 8516 m)
  • 06.05.1996: Kangchenjunga ( 8586 m)
  • 11.10.1996: Shishapangma ( 8027 m)
  • 13.07.1997: Broad Peak ( 8051 m)
  • 05/23/1998: Dhaulagiri ( 8167 m)
  • 29.07.1999: Nanga Parbat ( 8125 m)
  • 25.04.2000: Manaslu ( 8163 m)
  • 28.07.2000: Gasherbrum II ( 8034 m)
  • 08.07.2001: Hidden Peak ( 8080 m)
  • 16.05.2002: Annapurna ( 8091 m)
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