Tomaz Humar

Tomaz Humar was an alpine style mountaineer from Slovenia. In his mountaineering career, he completed more than 1,500 ascents many of which were solo attempts and most of which were completed by climbing through a new route. He reached the summit of Annapurna from North face (1995) using the French route and from the south face (2007) by finding a new route. In 1999 he soloed the southern face of Dhaulagiri (8,167 m) in 9 days which was deemed impossible by mountaineering legend Reinhold Messner. Tomaz Humar follows the purest form of mountaineering known as alpine mountaineering which consists of carrying all of one's food, shelter, equipment and climbing all alone without any supplemental oxygen, ropes or high altitude porters. This puts an almost negligible amount of pollution or garbage and is also claimed to be spiritually enlightening.