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. Tichy documented the climb in his book Cho Oyu, Cho Oyu: By Favour Of The Gods, published in 1957.
External links
- Literature by and about Herbert Tichy in the catalogue of the German National Library
- Hannes Stanik: . May 2009 ( online 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
- Sale, Richard. On Top of the World: Climbing the World's 14 Highest Mountains. HarperCollins, 2000, pp.105–107
- Tichy, Herbert (1957). Cho Oyu: By Favour Of The Gods. Methuen & Co.
See also
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