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TODESZONE: DIE STORY DER ERFOLGREICHEN UND TRAGISCHEN SKIBESTEIGUNG DES 8152 M HOHEN CHO OYU [DEATH ZONE: THE STORY OF THE SUCCESS AND TRAGEDY ON THE 8152 M HIGH CHO OYU] Stammberger
By Stammberger, Fritz
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Germany, 1972. 124 pp, color and black and white photos. In German, no English edition. Fritz Stammberger was a legendary climber, an imposing man with a weight lifter's physique, thick Germanic accent, and the poise of a rugged individualist. He'd immigrated to the U.S. from Germany in the early 1960s, and settled in Aspen as a printer and ski instructor. Fritz was a committed alpinist and a bold skier. He was also the editor of Climbing Magazine in the early 1970s, between Harvey Carter, and Michael Kennedy.

In 1964 he became the man with the highest ski descent to that date when he skied from 24,000 feet on Cho Oyu in Tibet (after making the first oxygenless ascent of that 8,000-meter peak, the seventh highest mountain in the world). Unfortunately his accomplishment was marred by controversy: he skied down Cho Oyu to get help for two companions who died on the mountain, and pundits later claimed the deaths were caused by Stammberger's neglect. History seems to exonerate Stammberger, but his mountaineering career was dogged by that initial debacle. This book is an account of that climb. Hardcover, Condition is Very Good or Fine.
 
Stammberger endured a frustrating series of failures in the Himalayas, eventually meeting his end while solo climbing in 1975 on Tirich Mir in Pakistan. A year before he disappeared, Fritz married Janice Pennington, a former Playboy Centerfold and television starlet. Pennington became obsessed with finding Fritz. Convinced by visions and psychics that he was still alive, she enlisted the help of everyone from private investigators to Elvis Presley. Despite the best efforts of his friends and family, Fritz was never found. Bil Dunaway is convinced he died on Tirich Mir. Pennington went on to write a book about her search for Fritz, concluding that he'd been recruited by the CIA, then died in Afghanistan during the jihad fighting of the early eighties. Whatever the case, Stammberger's spirit lives on to inspire North American ski alpinists.

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