Ernst Reiss

On 18 May 1956, Reiss and Luchsinger successfully climbed the 8,516-metre (27,940 ft) Lhotse, the 4th highest mountain on earth.

[1] Lhotse is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col on the border of Tibet and Nepal.

At the end of April and start of May, the expedition erected some high camps.

From the last high camp at the "Geneva Spur" on 18 May, Luchsinger and Reiss climbed the summit of Lhotse.

Their colleagues Ernst Schmied and Jürg Marmet were successful on 23 May and one day later Dölf Reist and Hansruedi von Gunten made the second and third climb on Mount Everest.

Ernst Reiss (right) and Dölf Reist , at the summit of Fleischbank mountain in the Summer of 1951