Hotel Yak & Yeti on April 18 organized a felicitation program for the Austrian Everest Expedition Team 1978 to mark the 40th anniversary of the hotel as well as the expedition.
During the felicitation program hosted by Monika Petra Scheiblauer, the general manager of Hotel Yak & Yeti, the climbers shared their extraordinary experiences and expressed their heartfelt connection to Nepal.
“It has been 40 years but the experience is still fresh,” Reinhold Messner, a member of the expedition, told APEX. “I wish to be back 20 years later and spend my last few years here. It is always wonderful to be here in Nepal.”
The other mountaineers of the 1978 expedition attending the event were Wolfgang Nairz, Prof Dr Oswald Olz, Prof Peter Habeler, Prof Dr Raimund Magreiter, Robert Schauer, Hanns Schell and Helmuth Hagner. Nepal Mountaineering Association President Santa Bir Lama and the representative of Nepal Tourism Board Sudhan Subedi were also in attendance.
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