This is a list of Austrian mountaineers. On 5 of all 14 Eight-thousanders Austrians have made the first ascent, more than any other nation can claim. Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Makalu and Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station. ...

• Matthias Auckenthaler, mountaineer (first climb of north face of Furchetta)
• Peter Aufschnaiter, mountaineer and co-traveller of Heinrich Harrer (Seven Years in Tibet)
• Karl Blodig, mountaineer (first to climb all alpine mountains above 4000m)
• Hermann Buhl, first ascent of Nanga Parbat 1953, first ascent of Broad Peak
• Kurt Diemberger, first ascents of Broad Peak (1957) and Dhaulagiri (1960)
• Heinrich Harrer, mountaineer (first ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid) and writer (Seven Years in Tibet)
• Peter Habeler, first ascent of Mount Everest without oxygen (together with Reinhold Messner)
• Sepp Jöchler, first ascent of Cho Oyo (together with Herbert Tichy)
• Beat Kammerlander, sportclimber
• Josef Larch, first ascent of Gasherbrum II
• Fritz Moravec, first ascent of Gasherbrum II together with Josef Larch and Hans Willenpart
• Ludwig Purtscheller, first ascent of Kilimanjaro in 1889
• Herbert Tichy, geologist, journalist and mountaineer (first ascent of Cho Oyo)
• Luis Trenker, mountaineer, film director and writer (born in South Tyrol, Austria-Hungary)
• Erich Vanis, mountaineer and alpinist 1928-2004
• Hans Willenpart, first ascent of Gasherbrum II
• Fritz Wintersteller, first ascent of Broad Peak
• Marcus Schmuck, first ascent of Broad Peak, initiator and leader of the expedition 1957

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See also

• Mountaineering
• List of climbers
• List of Austrians