Marcus Schmuck

Marcus Schmuck was an Austrian mountaineer. In 1957, together with Hermann Buhl he organized the expedition, firstly envisaged and initiated by Buhl, to climb the world's 12th highest peak, the Broad Peak (8,047 metres) in the Karakoram in Pakistan. The other members of the expedition were: Fritz Wintersteller and Kurt Diemberger. In his later years, he successfully organized and led 74 expeditions to the high mountains around the world. ^{Marcus Schmuck, Austrian mountaineer and author (d. 2005)}

18 April 1925

Born on the same birth day (18 April): Al-Wathiq • Audrey Tang • Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić • John Podhoretz • Melissa Joan Hart • Michael D. Higgins • Mika Zibanejad • Otto Piene • Rick Moranis • Sir Francis Baring, 1st Baronet

Born in the same month (April 1925): Art Kane • Chaturanan Mishra • Claude Wagner • Dettmar Cramer • Hans Rosenthal • John Thorn (headmaster) • Oliver Postgate