Peter Aufschnaiter (2 November 1899 – 12 October 1973) was an Austrian mountaineer, agricultural scientist, geographer and cartographer. el]], Austria, he went to high school in Kufstein. During his school education he was drafted into military service in the First World War in 1917. After he finished his final exams in 1919 he went to Munich, Germany to study agriculture.
In his early years he began climbing and later, in Munich, he became acqua...
more
Peter Aufschnaiter (2 November 1899 – 12 October 1973) was an Austrian mountaineer, agricultural scientist, geographer and cartographer. el]], Austria, he went to high school in Kufstein. During his school education he was drafted into military service in the First World War in 1917. After he finished his final exams in 1919 he went to Munich, Germany to study agriculture.
In his early years he began climbing and later, in Munich, he became acquainted with several German alpinists of the time. He took part in expeditions to the Kangchenjunga (1929 and 1931) and later lead the expedition to Nanga Parbat.
In mid-1939, Aufschnaiter took part in a German mountaineering expedition to the Himalayas, intending to climb Nanga Parbat, the ninth-highest mountain in the world. The peak was at that time within the borders of British India, and in late 1939, with the start of World War II, Aufschnaiter was detained by British colonial authorities as an enemy alien, and interned at Dehradun, along...
less
