Karl Mehringer

Karl Mehringer (died 1935) was a German mountaineer and climber. Notable for being part of the first team to attempt to climb the Eiger Nordwand or North Face in 1935. He and Max Sedlmeyer climbed as far as the top of the "Flat Iron" ("Bügeleisen" in German) feature where they were overtaken by a storm and died. His body was found in 1962 on the second icefield by a German rope team.[1]

Bibliography
  • The White Spider, Heinrich Harrer, 1958
  • The Beckoning Silence, Joe Simpson, 2002
  • The North Face, Philip Stoltz, 2008

References
  1. Harrer, Heinrich. The White Spider.


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