Sepp Mayerl

Sepp Mayerl, also known as Blasl-Sepp (14 April 1937 − 28 July 2012) was an Austrian mountaineer.

Sepp Mayerl

Personal information
Nationality	Austrian
Born	(1937-04-14)14 April 1937 Göriach, Tyrol, Austria
Died	28 July 2012(2012-07-28) (aged 75) Lavant, Tyrol
Occupation	Mountaineer
Climbing career
Known for	Lhotse Shar first ascent Mount Jitchu Drake first ascent

Mayerl was born on 14 April 1937 as the youngest of seven children into a farmer's family in the Tyrolean village of Göriach near Dölsach. He is renowned for making the first ascent of Lhotse Shar — a subsidiary summit of Lhotse — in May 1970 together with his friend Rolf Walter and for first climbing Mt. Jitchu Drake in May 1983 with Werner Sucher, Albert Egger, Alois Stuckler and Toni Ponholzer.

When he was 75, Mayerl fell to his death in the Lienzer Dolomites on 28 July 2012 while ascending the north ridge of the Adlerwand.^[1]

Further reading

• Mayerl, Sepp (Rosenheim 1984): Der Turm in mir. Zu schwierigsten Gipfeln der Erde. Rosenheimer, ISBN 978-3475524431 (with contributions by Reinhold Messner).
• Magerer, Hermann (2003): Bergauf Bergab 2. Bergverlag Rother, ISBN 9783763370474, pp. 263−272