Fritz Moravec

After returning to Austria after the war in 1946, Moravec continued to study psychology and education and became a teacher in a specialized school for locksmithing.

On 25 September 1995, in a lecture on Himalayan mountaineering held at Vienna's City Hall, Moravec stated: At 8,035 meters in altitude it was so warm that we even took off our parkas.

Not a cloud was in the sky, there was no wind, [...] Since there was no room on the two crags, Hans, Sepp and I built a small stone pyramid on the edge of the Firnfeld.

I placed the paper in an empty film canister, along with a Mother of God Medallion, to whom I credit much of the success of this great mountain climb.

Although the summit attempt failed, Moravec's team prepared the way and identified the route on the northeast ridge that would be used by the Swiss expedition the following year.

Moravec chose the latter project, and soon founded the Glockner-Kaprun mountaineering school and remained its leader for thirty years.