Luis Stitzinger in 2022 as a mountain guide on Mount Everest. Since Thursday, the Füssener is missing. © Luis Stitzinger/alixundluis/Instagram
The extreme mountaineer Luis Stitzinger, who comes from Füssen, has been missing in the Himalayas since last Thursday. This is reported by several media outlets.
Kathmandu/Füssen - As reported by the Münchner Merkur, among others, the experienced and well-known mountaineer has been missing since last Thursday. According to this, Stitzinger, who lives in Füssen, was alone on the third highest mountain in the world, the eight-thousander Kanchenjunga (8586 meters) on the border between India and Nepal. The paper cites Thaneshwor Guragain, an employee of Stitzinger's Nepalese expedition company Seven Summit Treks.
According to Guraggain, only in the base camp would Stitzinger have used the services of Sherpas. A local mountaineer from the Sherpa people would have seen the 54-year-old Allgäuer on Thursday (May 25) on Thursday (May 8500) on the descent to around <> meters. According to Merkur, an employee from the Nepalese Ministry of Tourism had already confirmed that Stitzinger is missing.
Rescue mission underway
As the Mercury further reports, the expedition company has already sent a rescue team with four Sherpas. It is said that Stitzinger was unable to climb up in the face of bad weather. In addition, his exact location is not known, as his GPS device stopped sending signals during his ascent.
The journalist Stefan Nestler reports on his blog that the rescue team has now arrived at a base camp. Before that, however, the helpers would not have been able to land with their helicopter in view of the bad weather.
According to Nestler, Stitzinger did not come to Kangchendjunga as a mountain guide, but as a private citizen. Stitzinger had only climbed Mount Everest for the second time last year. Partly together with his wife Alix von Melle, also a mountaineer, Stitzinger climbed several eight-thousanders and other high mountains.
Together they published the book "Passion for Life: Together on the Highest Mountains in the World" and often give lectures about their expeditions to the highest peaks in the world.
