Tomaž Humar

Tomaž Humar ( born February 18, 1969 in Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, now Slovenia, † November 10, 2009 at Langtang Lirung, Nepal ) was a Slovenian mountaineer.

He grew up in Kamnik, in the nearby Steiner Alps, he began to climb. Since the mid- 1990s, he climbed mountains in the Himalayas. In October 1997, he mounted together with Janez Jeglič Nuptse; after both had reached the summit, Jeglič was swept away and killed by the storm. Humar was excluded from the Slovenian Alpine Association, since there is his tendency to go on even in adverse weather conditions and risking the lives of the other refused. Humars later, privately sponsored tours were documented by his staff at base camp live on his website, his spectacular rise severe on the south wall of Dhaulagiri in November 1999. During work at his home in October 2000, he retired from a fall from height of 3 meters injuries. In 2005, he remained in the ascent on Nanga Parbat stuck due to bad weather; at the urging of the Slovenian government took the Pakistani Air Force a perilous rescue operation for the crew by helicopter.

When you climb up the Langtang Lirung to Humar broke a leg on 9 November 2009; he demanded with the satellite phone to help and signed up for the last time on November 10. His body was recovered on November 14.

Work

• Tomaž Humar: Ni nemogočih poti. Mobitel, Ljubljana 2001, ISBN 961-6403-23-0.