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Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth has died

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Date: 14/04/1975

On 14 April 1975, Günter Oskar Dyhrenfurth, a mountaineer, explorer and geologist known for leading several important expeditions to theHimalayas and the Karakoram in the 1930s. Thanks to his work, significant insights were gained into these inaccessible regions, which undoubtedly contributed to the first ascents of the eight-thousanders a couple of decades later.

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