Dölf Reist

Dölf Reist (1921-2000) was a Swiss mountaineer, best known for the third successful summit of Mount Everest on 23 May 1956, as part of the 1956 Swiss Expedition to Everest and Lhotse.

[1][2] Reist and Ernst Reiss are said to have formed "one of the best leaderless rope teams in Switzerland".

[3] Reist was part of the second two-man team to reach the Summit, and he climbed with Hans Ruedi von Gunten.

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Dölf Reist (left) standing next to Ernst Reiss in 1951, on the summit Fleischbank mountain in the Kaiser mountain range in the Alps