Peter Habeler, born in 1942 in Mayrhofen in the Zillertal, a valley in the Austrian Tyrol, has received the 2026 Piolet d’Or Lifetime Achievement Award. From childhood, encouraged by his grandfather following his father’s death, he roamed freely through these mountains and climbed his first peaks, including the Olperer. Thanks to Toni Volgger, a local guide, he learnt mountaineering techniques: “When I was ten or eleven years old, I met these mo…
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