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	Knowledge King - Heinrich Harrer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heinrich Harrer (born 1912) is an Austrian mountaineer.
		Harrer made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, Switzerland with Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek and Ludwig Vorg in 1938.
		Interned in 1939 by the British while climbing in India, he escaped in 1944 with a companion into Tibet, where he spent seven years and became a friend of the Dalai Lama.
	www.knowledgeking.net /encyclopedia/h/he/heinrich_harrer.html (86 words)

	Heinrich Harrer. Who is Heinrich Harrer? What is Heinrich Harrer? Where is Heinrich Harrer? Definition of Heinrich ...
		Heinrich Harrer (born July 6 1912) is an Austrian mountaineer.
		Harrer made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, Switzerland with Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek and Ludwig Vorg in July 1938.
		Interned in 1939 by the British while climbing the Nanga Parbat in India, he escaped in 1939 with a companion into Tibet, where he spent seven years and became a friend of the young Dalai Lama.
	www.knowledgerush.com /kr/encyclopedia/Heinrich_Harrer (100 words)

	climb.mountainzone.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Joe Simpson, the Times reported, author of Touching the Void, was lower on the route with a partner and said the two were simul-climbing and did not have any protection between them.
		Several Austrians and Germans died attempting the North Face before it was first climbed by Heinrich Harrer, Fritz Kasparek, Anderl Heckmair and Ludwig Vorg in July of 1938.
		In 1966, American legend John Harlin was killed while attempting a new route on the face when the fixed rope he has ascending broke.
	climb.mountainzone.com /2000/news/html/eiger.html (148 words)

	Eiger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It towers over 1,800 m (5,900 ft) above the valley in the Bernese Oberland below and has claimed the lives of many climbers, including the famous American John Harlin.
		Regarded even today as one of the most formidable challenges in mountaineering, it was first climbed on July 24, 1938 by Heinrich Harrer, Andreas Heckmair, Ludwig Vörg and Fritz Kasparek of a German-Austrian expedition.
		A portion of the upper face is called "The White Spider", as snow-filled cracks radiating from an ice-field resemble the legs of a spider.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eiger (555 words)

	Eiger - Wikipedia
		Juli 1938 durch eine deutsche und eine österreichische Seilschaft mit Heinrich Harrer, Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek und Ludwig Vörg.
		In der Wand hatten sich die beiden Seilschaften (Kasparek und Harrer aus Österreich einerseits, Heckmair und Vörg aus Deutschland andererseits) vereinigt.
		Obwohl der Zusammenschluss der Seilschaften keinerlei politische Gründe hatte (die vier hatten sich aus Freude über ihr Überleben in einer Lawine in der "Spinne" verbunden), sah das damalige nationalsozialistische Regime in der Vereinigung ein Symbol für den Anschluss Österreichs an Deutschland, der kurz vorher, am 13.
	de.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eiger (970 words)

	Memorial Oaks Chapel - Family service since 1975, located in Brenham, Texas: vaults, caskets, cremation, cemteries, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		On Nov. 7, 1944, he was married to Elaura Kasparek in Warrenton by Rev. Julius Bosshard.
		Neumann was a member of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Shelby, where he served on the council a number of years and served as president and treasurer.
		He was preceded in death by his parents; and a brother-in-law, Percy Kasparek.
	obit.memorialoakschapel.com /obit_display.cgi?id=85288&listing=Current (295 words)

	Peakware - Eiger (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Just to let you know, some of the comments on the first ascent of the Nordwand of the Eiger are erroneous - The first ascent was by a mixed Austrian German group in 1938 sustaining no fatalities.
		The group consisted of Andreas Heckmair, Ludwig Voerg, Fritz Kasparek and Heinrich Harrer.
		In 1935, the Germans, Karl Mehringer and Max Sedlmeyer froze to death at what is now known as 'Death Bivouac', a position above the Flatiron.
	www.peakware.com /encyclopedia/peaks/eiger.htm (403 words)

	SILRL-003 (SILESIAN / SCHLESIEN Research List Archive-003) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fritz Alfred Alois POLENSKY (born 23 September 1893 at Schweidnitz) married Ida Anna GÜTTLER 28 February 1916 at Leutmannsdorf, Silesia, Germany.
		Their children were: Fritz, Elfriedl, Hedwig, Gunther, Paul (my dad), Alfred, Ruth, Walter, and Martha (died young from an illness).
		Fritz Alfred Alois Polensky learned bricklaying and received a diploma in Schweidnitz before the two World Wars.
	cefha.org /de/sil/silrl/silrl-003.html (1293 words)

	Heinrich Harrer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He competed at the Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1936 in the combined Alpine skiing competition.
		Harrer made the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, Switzerland with Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek and Ludwig Vorg on July 24th 1938.
		This climb is recounted in the book The White Spider.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Heinrich_Harrer (344 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Anderl Heckmair
		On July 24 1938 Heckmair, Wiggerl Vörg and the Austrians Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek stood on the summit having defeated the last great problem of the Alps.
		Their achievement is considered one of the finest moments of alpine mountaineering, and Heckmair made it possible by navigating the way through the labyrinth of ice gullies and by leading the most difficult sections.
		Harrer and Kasparek set off on July 21, Heckmair and Vörg caught up with them the following day.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/02/05/db0501.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/02/05/ixportal.html (1257 words)

	Temple College vs Midland College (May 04, 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Kasparek grounded out to 2b; Eichas advanced to second.
		Fritz singled to pitcher, bunt; Ward advanced to second; Ross advanced to third.
		Kasparek singled to right center; Eichas advanced to third.
	www.mcm.edu /sports/baseball/TXNMJC4.HTM (1063 words)

	americasroof news - hiking and climbing the highest mountains and hills in the world and U.S.
		And for those brave enough to attempt the face there is the added weight of its tragic history," he wrote.
		The first successful assault on the Eiger was made in 1938 when Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek, Anderl Heckmair and Ludwig Vorg climbed into history.
		They became national heroes in Austria and Germany, and although Hitler subsequently claimed the ascent as a triumph for the Aryan race, there was a vitriolic disagreement within the group over the way their feat was used for propaganda.
	www.network54.com /Forum/thread?forumid=3897&messageid=1083164565 (782 words)

	Banff Mountain Mountain Summit Archives - 2000
		In the early 1930s, Heckmair made bold ascents of Tre Cima di Lavaredo, the Cima Grande Northface, (first alpine ascent in five hours without a bivouac), Civetta Northwest face, Sans Maor East face, amongst others.
		In 1935, Heckmair led team members Ludwig Voerg, Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek on the first ascent of the Eiger Northface.
		He then entered military service in 1939 and from 1943-1945 served as an instructor for training courses for military mountain guides in Pulpmes, Austria.
	www.banffcentre.ca /mountainculture/archives/festivals/summit/2000/heckmair.htm (379 words)

	Camp4: Anderl Heckmair- My Life
		Legendary mountaineer Anderl Heckmair is celebrated for his ascent of the North Face of the Eiger (achieved in 1938 with climbers Heinrich Harrer, Ludwig Vogr, and Fritz Kasparek).
		While the climbing in Africa turned out to be less than spectacular, it gave Heckmair a taste for travel and exposure to a different culture.
		In vivid color Heckmair relives his most remarkable accomplishment--the first ascent of the North Face of the Eigerwand, climbed in 1938 with Heinrich Harrer, Wiggerl Verg, and Fitz Kasparek.
	www.camp4.com /words/index.php?print_id=401 (1295 words)

	Mechanical Advantage
		Prior to his immigration to the United States, Fritz Wiessner teamed up with aid master Roland Rossi and the adventurer Emil Solleder for some of the wildest long rock adventures in the Alps, including the Southeast Face of the Fleischbank (V+), and the Furchetta North Wall (VI).
		Robert Underhill, brother and sister Lincoln and Miriam O’Brien (later Underhill), Elizabeth Knowlton, Fritz Wiessner, and Bill House, and the cousins Bradley Gilman and Hassler Whitney all made belayed ascents of the steep rock faces of the Cannon, Cathedral, and Whitehorse cliffs in the White Mountains of New Hampshire.
		Harrer had elected not to take a pair of crampons for the ascent, while his partner Fritz Kasparek had a pair of traditional "ten-points", crampons with ten sharp points evenly spaced around the sole of the boot.
	www.bigwalls.net /climb/mechadv (8492 words)

	Chessler Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Eigerwand, already notorious for fatal accidents, had become a symbol of the rise of fascism - tainted with the image of recklessness amd fanaticism.
		Thus when the Astro-German quartet of Heckmair, Vorg, Kasparek and Harrer fought through, their 'conquest' was seen as foolhardy and, for the Nazi propeganda machine, a triumph of Ayran spirit.
		He talks about his family's financial difficulties, culminating with his mother having to send him and his brother to an orphanage.He relives the event that catapulted him to international acclaim-the first ascent of the North Face of the Eiger, which he climbed in 1938 with Heinrich Harrer, Wiggerl Vörg, and Fritz Kasparek.
	www.chesslerbooks.com /eCart/viewItem.asp?idProduct=2791 (337 words)

	Gripped News
		One of the most impressive Himalayan ascents of the last century was Austrian party of Marcus Schmuck, Fritz Wintersteller, Kurt Diemberger and Hermann Buhl’s 1957 first ascent of Pakistan’s 8,047 m Broad Peak.
		This was achieved by a small team without artificial oxygen who ferried all the loads to the high camps.
		He is most famous, however, for his first ascent of the Eigerwand with Ludwig Vörg, Heinrich Harrer and Franz Kasparek.
	www.gripped.com /News/34_apr_2005 (3598 words)

	BBC News \| EUROPE \| Eiger's grim reputation
		After more failed and fatal attempts to climb the mountain by its most difficult face, a group of four finally managed to put up a route.
		Two Germans, Anderl Heckmair and Ludwig (Wiggerl) Vorg, and the Austrians Fritz Kasparek and Heinrich Harrer, joined forces in 1938 to make the first ascent.
		The dramatic tale was recounted in Harrer's book The White Spider which is named after the distinctive ice field near the summit and has become a mountaineering classic.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/europe/1517471.stm (857 words)

	Planet Wissen - Eiger
		Aber der Weg war schwer." Heckmair, Vörg, Kasparek und Harrer hatten das letzte große "Problem" in den Alpen gelöst.
		Von den vier Pionieren lebt heute nur noch Heinrich Harrer.
		Ludwig Kasparek verunglückte 1954 tödlich beim Versuch den Salcantay in Peru zu besteigen.
	www.planet-wissen.de /pw/Artikel,,,,,,,C88A40A456B6ED92E030DB95FBC35F62,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.html (739 words)

	Eiger live - Eiger-Nordwand-Durchsteigung live im Internet (SF DRS Online) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		First ascent by Anderl Heckmair, Ludwig Vörg, Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek
		The pair of two-man rope-teams combined forces on the face and all were successful.
		On 24th July, Anderl Heckmair, Heinrich Harrer, Fritz Kasparek and Ludwig Vörg were standing at the summit.
	www.sfdrs.ch /eiger-live/english/route2.html (217 words)

	geschichte
		Von den 11 Gründern sind deren 6 zeit ihres Lebens dem Club treu geblieben: Zwei Juristen: Hans Schnyder und Hans Stumm; zwei Phil-einer: Jaques Mosimann und Fritz Weiss; zwei Mediziner: Arved Punschel und Heinrich Kern.
		Fritz Zschokke, Clubmitglied seit 1920, sichert das Projekt mit einem Legat ab.
		Andreas Heckmair, Ludwig Vörg, Fritz Kasparek, Heinrich Harrer.
	www.unibas.ch /aacb/about/gschichtli/aacb80a.html (4819 words)

	Eiger Pioneer Heckmair Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Eight men already had been killed on the 6,000-foot face before Heckmair and Wiggerl Vörg started climbing in July 1938.
		Partway up, they joined forces with Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek, but it was Heckmair who led the most difficult pitches, climbing with then-novel front-point crampons.
		He fell several times, once puncturing Vörg’s hand with his crampons, but the German-Austrian team still managed to reach the top after three and a half days of climbing.
	www.climbing.com /news/heckmair (222 words)

	Film review: Seven Years in Tibet -- ThingsAsian Article
		Contrary to popular belief, Harrer did not compete on the Austrian skiing team in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin, an apocryphal factoid perpetrated by a number of unreliable sources.
		However, he did make the first ascent of the north face of the Eiger in Switzerland with Anderl Heckmair, Fritz Kasparek and Ludwig Vorg in July 1938.
		Austria was taken by Germany shortly before the onset of World War II, and Harrer, who was on a mountain climbing expedition to scale Nanga Parabat in India, was taken prisoner and held in a British Colonial internment camp near the Tibetan border.
	www.thingsasian.com /goto_article/article.3198.html (1334 words)

	Eiger live: Eiger-Nordwand-Durchsteigung (SF DRS Online) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Arnold Lunn, from England, along with Walter Amstutz, Willy Richardet and Fritz Amacher, all from Switzerland, make the first ski ascent, via the Eiger glacier, returning by the same route.
		From the North ridge of the Eiger (3614m) the four continue the climb on foot.
		From 22nd to 24th July, Germans Anderl Heckmair and Ludwig Vörg, along with two Austrians, Fritz Kasparek and Heinrich Harrer (21st to 24th July), make the first full ascent of the North face of the Eiger.
	www.sfdrs.ch /eiger-live/english/chronologie.html (1076 words)

	Zdobywanie Eigeru... przed telewizorem (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Dopiero w lipcu 1938 roku pó³nocna ciana zosta³a zdobyta przez dwa zespo³y wspinaj¹ce siê pocz¹tkowo osobno, a ostatecznie razem: Anderl Heckmair / Ludwig Vörg i Fritz Kasparek / Heinrich Harrer.
		W³aciciel hotelu Fritz von Allmen obserwowa³ wspinaczkê przy pomocy 72-krotnie powiêkszaj¹cego teleskopu i w razie potrzeby alarmowa³ ratowników.
		Dwaj Austriacy — Heinrich Harrer i Fritz Kasparek oraz Niemcy Anderl Heckmair i Ludwig Vörg jako pierwsi pokonali pó³nocn¹ cianê Eigeru 24 lipca 1938 roku po czterodniowej wspinaczce.
	www.sportowystyl.com.pl /kraj1.html (1980 words)

	Rhode Island Rams - The Official Athletic Site for the University of Rhode Island
		3 3 - - F 9 Megan Kasparek......
		- - - - ---------- Substitutes ---------- ---------- Substitutes ---------- 7 FRITZ, Courtney.....
		30:57 URI Melanie Kasparek (12) Megan Kasparek Pass from end line to goal mouth, shot i 4.
	gorhody.collegesports.com /sports/w-soccer/stats/102702.html (492 words)

	Sweeties, Pies and Ginger: The Beckoning Silence
		Of all the classics the north face of the Eiger has always been the one I’d really like to climb.
		In Joe Simpson’s book he delves into the history of the face and the classic struggles of the 1930’s that lead to the first ascent in t 1938 by Andreas Heckmair, Ludwig Voerg, Fritz Kasparek and Heinrich Harrer.
		Simpson’s evocative prose of the history and his own attempt made it feel like I was on the face with them.
	www.bobarnott.com /blog/archives/000329.html (911 words)

	Grindlewald
		From the hotel the trail follows a ridgeline for several miles with this incredible view the entire way.
		Towering above Grindelwald is the infamous North Face of the Eiger, which was not successfully climbed until 1938 by the team of Andreas Heckmair, Ludwig Vorg, Fritz Kasparek and Heinrich Harrer.
		A wonderful hike will take you below the imposing face as we trek in the shadow of the Eiger.
	www.swisshiking.com /grindlewald.htm (250 words)

	Ari's Base Camp - Western Alps (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Fist ascent by a female in July 1862 by 18 years old Lucy Walker (UK) together with her father Frank and brother Horace (The highest point of Grandes Jorasses, 'Pointe Walker', is named after him).
		In 1931 Christian Meisser made one of the pioneer features in history of extreme ski mountaineering as he skiied the 450 meter high couloir between Finsteraarhorn and Agassizhorn.
		First ascent 24.7.1938 by Andreas Heckmair and Ludvig Vörg (Germany) together with Austrians Heinrich Harrer (yes, the guy from 'Seven Years in Tibet') and Fritz Kasparek.
	ari.rdx.net /abc/mountains/westernalps.htm (8276 words)

	Swiss news from swissinfo, the Swiss news platform (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Heckmair and his compatriot Ludwig Vörg began their ascent on July 21, 1938 using special equipment.
		Following a snowstorm and a series of avalanches they teamed up with two Austrians, Heinrich Harrer and Fritz Kasparek, who had set off on their own.
		He found daring passages in this huge wall that made his route a classic to this day.
	www.swissinfo.org /sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=111&sid=5511114 (519 words)

	OUTDOORSmagic OTH news - Eiger Conquerer Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The Swiss had recently banned all climbing on the infamous Nordwand, due to the number of deaths and the impossibility of rescue.
		Heckmair, and his fellow German Ludwig Vörg, caught up with the Austrians Fritz Kasparek and Heinrich Harrer on the face and joined forces at the Second Icefall.
		With Harrer leading most of the way, the team succeeded in cracking what had long been thought impossible - and one of the last remaining great problems of Alpine mountaineering
	www.outdoorsmagic.com /news/article/mps/UAN/3106/v/1/sp (412 words)

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