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): Alia Shawkat • Aminé • Bernard Arcand • Bertha Isaacs • Clarence Darrow • David Tennant • Giacomo Carissimi • Giuseppe Pella • Jane Leeves • Korneli Kekelidze • Leopold Berchtold • Ludwig Levy • Olena Zhupiyeva-Vyazova • Peter Hordern • Régis Wargnier • Sam Crawford • Thomas Middleton • Vicente Sotto

Born in the same month (April 1925): Art Kane • Chaturanan Mishra • Claude Wagner • Derek Chinnery • Dettmar Cramer • Elena Verdugo • Hans Rosenthal • Janet Rowley • John Compton • Louis O'Neill (politician) • Michele Ferrero • Oliver Postgate • Sammy Drechsel • Tony Christopher, Baron Christopher