With Heinrich Harrer, Fritz Kasparek, and Anderl Heckmair, he successfully climbed the north face of the Eiger in 1938, which was regarded as unclimbable at the time.
Vörg was killed in action on the first day of Operation Barbarossa, Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union on 22 June 1941.
Late in the afternoon, two guides reported to the hut that they had brought a freezing exhausted Primas down from the ridge, but that Gollackner was dead 152 m below the summit.
The force with which I came down on Wiggerl knocked him out of his holds, but he, too, had been able to save himself and there we were, standing about 1 meter below our stance on steep ice without any footholds.
The pictures of Vörg taken at the end of July at the Breslau Deutsches Turn- und Sportfest 1938 taken a couple of days later show injury to his arm when the 4 climbers are with the minister of sport as well the most notorious third Reich figures.
Vörg was a Gefreiter in the German Army and was killed in action on the first day of Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941 in Siolo on the Russian front.