Wolfgang Schaub
Who I am
- Born: 1944 in Heidelberg/Germany
- Chemist by profession, then lost in administration, finally after being liberated in 2000 as a pensioner
- Mountaineer since 1952
- High altitude mountaineer until 2000:
Dufourspitze of Monte Rosa, solo, 1967 — 4634m
Montblanc in second attempt, 1970 — 4808m
Matterhorn 1970 — 4478m
Popocatépetl solo, April 1974 — 5452m
Citlaltépetl (Pico de Orizaba) solo, April 1978 — 5636m
Cotopaxi 1979 — highest volcano of the Earth, 5897m
Ixtaccíhuatl 1980 solo, in third attempt — 5230m
Chimborazo, 16 October 1980 — highest of the Earth as measured from its centre, 6263m
Fuji-san 1978 and 1989 — 3776m
Ararat 1990 — highest mountain of the Bible, 5137m
Kilimanjaro 1991 — highest mountain of Africa, 5895m
Kazbek, 1993 — 5054m
Elbrus, in second attempt 1993 — highest mountain of Europe, 5230m
Parikrama around holy Mt Kailash 1994
Aconcagua, successful in the third attempt, solo, 16 January 1997,
100 years after its first ascent — highest mountain outside of Asia, 6952m
Failed attempt on Pik Lenin 1999
Thabana Ntlenyana, 2011 — highest in Southern Africa, 3482m
- 2000 - 2011: Searching for the Highest
- 7th June 2009: The first ever to have climbed every highpoint of all 49 European states: http://www.summitpost.org/view_object.php?object_id=526136&confirm_post=7
- From about 2010 onwards: Active in matters of springs, Germany's extreme points, peculiarities of Germany's border and foundation of a state of my own
- From 2016 onwards: Active in matters of borderlines and frontiers
Where to find me
Luisenstrasse 13
D-65779 Kelkheim/Taunus
Germany (unless I am travelling)
Tel. +49 (0)6195 - 64298
E-mail: vide Impressum
How I look like
On the summit of Cheviot, Northumberland, May 2006
Summer 2005, on the retreat from Mt’a Shani in the Georgian Caucasus, with my trousers ragged
What I sing, alone on lonely hills
 Farewell to the mountains high cover'd with snow; Farewell to the straths and green valleys below; Farewell to the forests and wild-hanging woods; Farwell to the torrents and loud-pouring floods. My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here, My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer Chasing the wild deer, and following the roe; My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.
Robert Burns – 1759 – 1796
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My greatest victory in life: the assault on Rockall
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