A German climber on Saturday scaled Mount Everest without using supplemental oxygen and Sherpa support, expedition organizers said.
David Göttler stood atop the summit of the world’s highest mountain at 12 noon on Saturday in an alpinist style. “He reached the summit without supplemental oxygen and Sherpa support,” Tashi Lhakpa Sherpa, Managing Director of Seven Summit Treks told Everest Chronicle. The Seven Summit Treks provided Göttler with logistic support for the expedition.
A certified UIAGM guide, Göttler is the third person to summit Everest this spring without supplemental oxygen. Two Nepali climbers Mingma Gyalje Sherpa aka Mingma G and Nirmal Purja aka Nimsdai had summited Everest last week without supplemental oxygen, while leading their clients to the summit.
Mingma G plans to summit all 14 peaks above 8000 meters without supplemental oxygen. Everest expedition was his 13th 8,000-meter peak without supplemental oxygen. Now, Shishapangma is the only peak left for him to join the club of 14 peak summiteers, which he hasn’t climbed yet with or without supplemental oxygen, according to Dawa Futi Sherpa, a manager of Imagine Nepal
For Göttler this year’s Everest expedition was his seventh peak above 8,000 meters. He has summited Gasherbrum II (8,034m), Broad Peak (8,051m), Dhaulagiri (8,16,m), Lhotse (8,516) and Makalu (8,163m). In 2017, he summited Shishapangma (8,024m) from South Face in under 13 hours.
