Tragical death on Piz Palü

chris.mueller · Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 70

Website http://www.hikr.org/post14189.html says that Sp-member cyrill, his girl friend and another friend of the pair died in an avalanche last weekend while climbing Piz Palü.

Condolences to their families.

Borut Kantušer · Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 506

Condolences to the families.

Brutus, now Cyrill.

Woodie Hopper · Joined: 21 Aug 2005 Posts: 277

Unbelieveable- I was just reading some of his TR's earlier today as I'm planning my upcoming trip to the Wallis. I really enjoyed his many contributions here on SP.

I'm very sad to learn of this.

Rest in peace.

Cy Kaicener · Joined: 18 Oct 2004 Posts: 4251

More bad news. Crying or Very sad

My condolences to family and friends.
http://www.summitpost.org/user_page.php?user_id=30908
http://www.hikr.org/user/cyrill/

Moni · Joined: 12 Aug 2002 Posts: 2093

For those who do not speak or read German:

Cyril, his girlfriend (wife?) Tanja and a companion were apparently the first of many parties to ski/climb Palü that weekend. Apparently about 10 parties completed the climb on Saturday and another 70 to 80 on Sunday. There had been considerable new snow that had drifted on Friday, but general conditions and weather were fine. A small section of the slope just below the summit released and took it with them - sounds more like a drift but not quite cornice that broke off. The general avalanche danger was not considered high, but just this very local place was apparently dicey. The accident was not observed and only after acquaintances notified the authorities that they were overdue was a search initiated. A Rega helicopter found and retrieved the bodies late Sunday.

His hikr webpage indicates that he started climbing in 2002 and climbed over 993 summits since then - an impressive log!

My condolences to the family and friends of these 3 departed comrades.!

MikeTX · Joined: 07 Apr 2007 Posts: 3886

I'm very sorry to hear this. Looks like he was a very good climber. RIP

lcarreau · Joined: 06 Sep 2007 Posts: 1303

The young man had contributed immensely and will be missed.

Sad

tazz · Joined: 05 May 2005 Posts: 491

So sorry to see this. Sad

great climber and photographer.

Condolences to family and friends.

goldenhopper · Joined: 12 Dec 2005 Posts: 2588

He had accomplished so much in such a short time! Certainly one of the worst parts about venturing into the mountains is the danger of loosing some of the amazing people who embrace them.

RIP

charles · Joined: 09 Jan 2004 Posts: 14046

How very sad. My condolences to all who knew them!
Charles

Mihai Tanase · Joined: 04 Jun 2006 Posts: 231

andre hangaard · Joined: 04 Mar 2003 Posts: 55

So tragic to read this sad news about Cyril and Tanja and their friend and what happend to them om Piz Palü. Cyril's contribution to SP was huge and his dedication to the mountains was 100%. My deepest condolences to his family. /André

Dave Dinnell · Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 1060

Very sad...

Gangolf Haub · Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 5994

I'm simply speechless. We've been in constant contact about technical stuff on SP. Very bad!

Cyrills's Summits !!!

WouterB · Joined: 11 Jan 2008 Posts: 2363

I read some of his pages before. I think we could've seen a lot more of him if this hadn't happened. rip