Pit Schubert (2 December 1935 – 28 February 2024) was a German non-fiction author, climber, and mountaineer.
He was the founder and former head of the safety commission of the German Alpine Club (DAV).
Schubert was a qualified engineer, and worked for approximately 15 years in the aerospace industry.
In 1968, he was a founding member of the DAV Safety Group, which he chaired until retiring in 2000.
[2] He worked to standardize climbing equipment, prevented innumerable accidents,[3] and he stated that "At that time man was making the first flight to the moon a reality, but we were still using ice axes with wooden shafts – which could break on the first use on the ice – so a lot of things were waiting to be done.” Schubert died on 28 February 2024, at the age of 88.