Bereavement
Mountaineering legend Willi Bauer (84) is dead
The Upper Austrian mountaineer Willi Bauer is dead. This was announced by Naturfreunde Lenzing on Saturday evening. The 82-year-old fell asleep peacefully on Thursday after a long illness, it was reported. Bauer was best known as one of the two survivors of the 1986 mountaineering tragedy on K2 in Pakistan.
Born in Traunviertel in 1942, Willi Bauer, who initially worked as a chimney sweep and later as an energy technician at Lenzing AG, had climbed numerous peaks in South America and Asia from the early 1970s, some of them for the first time. Among other things, he was part of the Austrian mountaineering team that conquered Yukshin Gardan Sar in the Karakoram in Pakistan for the first time in 1984.
Five dead
The tragedy on K2 in August 1986 left its mark on Bauer: after his international team of seven climbers had reached the summit, a snowstorm hit the area for several days. Apart from Bauer and his Salzburg comrade Kurt Diemberger, all the climbers involved in the expedition died.
Only around a decade later, the father of three unfortunately had to experience another tragedy: his son Willi junior died in an accident in the Mont Blanc region in 1997.
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