Herbert Tichy

Austrian author, geologist, journalist and climber
Tichy's ice ax used on Cho Oyu (second from right)

Herbert Tichy (1 June 1912 – 26 September 1987) was an Austrian writer, geologist, journalist and climber.

Along with Sepp Jöchler [de] and Pasang Dawa Lama, Tichy made the first ascent of Cho Oyu on 19 October 1954.[1] Tichy documented the climb in his book Cho Oyu, Cho Oyu: By Favour Of The Gods, published in 1957.[2]

  • Literature by and about Herbert Tichy in the catalogue of the German National Library
  • Hannes Stanik:  . May 2009 ( online [PDF; accessed on 15 December 2014] thesis).
  • Photos by Herbert Tichy during the first ascent of Cho Oyu ( Memento from November 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  • Herbert Tichy . Article on emmet.de, via archive.org
  • Association for the Promotion of the Memory of Herbert Tichy
  • Gerhard Schirmer: Herbert Tichy: The Globetrotter . landderberge.at, accessed on 2 November 2014
  • Herbert Tichy in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

References

  1. ^ Sale, Richard. On Top of the World: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains. HarperCollins, 2000, pp.105–107
  2. ^ Tichy, Herbert (1957). Cho Oyu: By Favour Of The Gods. Methuen & Co.

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