Peter Hamor
Peter Hamor is an active and vigorous man, mountain climber, and adventurer who is known not only in the climbing community. Mountains simply fit to him. If he is not just climbing in the Tatras or Slovensky Raj, he will be certainly wandering in some other mountains. There is great probability that those mountains are a bit far away and bit higher as well. But, certainly beautiful!
In 1986 he made his first trip to big mountains, in which he has been gaining experience for about 25 years now, and for the first time he challenged quite high altitude to Peak Korzhenevskaya (7105 m) in Pamir Mountains. In the first half of 90’s Peter ascended the most famous Alpine peaks Matterhorn, Grandes Jorasses and Eiger by its northern faces. Later on he followed with Himalayas, Karakoram, Alaska, and Andes. He has wandered and climbed pretty large part of the world.
Seven Summits – Crown of the Earth
Seven continents – seven mountains. Every one of them is different but a man at its summits is the same. He had to get along with all of them.
Peter achieved seven summits. As the only Slovak guy he stood at the top of seven highest mountains of our world continents. Peter has brought a piece of the each of seven mountains; it is a small stone with a huge value. The first one he picked up at the highest point of the world Mt. Everest, and the last one at the top of white-white Mt. Vinson in Antarctica. Peter stood up twice at the Europe’s roof (and its corner too) Elbrus, three times at the coldest mountain Alaska‘s Mount McKinley and volatile Aconcagua /the highest peak of South America which he has also ascended once with his wife Marika/. When climbing up to African Kilimanjaro he managed to avoid classic “Coca Cola road“ can jungle; however, the real wild jungle he was not able to bypass anyhow on his approach to Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea, which is the one with most difficult accessibility out of the seven summits.
How adventurous and extraordinary can be the journey heading for “ordinary“stones from a single mountain!!!
Seven eight-thousands
Next seven – Next primacy.
Peter Hamor is the first Slovak guy who stood at the top of seven mountains with altitude over eight-thousand meters. The first one he reached was the Mt. Everest in 1998 followed by Cho Oyu, Annapurna and Broad Peak in 2006. One year later Peter ascended Nanga Parbat, and in 2008 Gasherbrum I and Gasherbrum II. And what about the other eight-thousand beauties? Although Peter’s current plan was to climb up next two, his goal is not to reach all fourteen summits. He chooses those which he likes...and those do not have to belong to the highest ones.
More about Peter Hamor’s successes
Among projects belonging to Peter Hamor we can include so called “Himalayan triptychs“or “trilogies“. In 2006 he achieved the first series of ascents when he gradually conquered above mentioned Cho Oyu, Annapurna and Broad Peak.
In 2007 his successful climbs were enriched by Nanga Parbat as well as he climbed over a valuable face of the K2 where he reached 8000 meters height. The 2008 and Himalayan Trilogy Reactivation 2008 brought successful acclimatization on “Himalayan Matterhorn“ Ama Dablam, and later that year Peter with his Polish friends climbed very high-quality route in the southwest face of Annapurna where they reached 7900 meters high, at this point they had to turn back as the mountain did not let them go further due to bad weather conditions.
Yet, in that year Peter and Mr. Morawsky managed to climb up to the Gasherbrum I and II in Karakoram (just the traverse of Gasherbrum I. has been assessed as the best ascent of the year 2008 by the Slovak Mountaineering Association ; however, it keeps its value in the worldwide mountaineering scale too).
Together with two Polish guys - Port Pustelnik and Piotr Morawski, with whom he has been climbing for last few years, they elaborated project Himalayan Trilogy 2009. This time the goal of the „Tres Pedros“ were Dhaulagiri (8167 m), Manaslu (8163 m) and Karakoram Rakaposhi (7788 m) – all of these were meant to be climbed by quick Alpine style. Any one of them did not anticipate that just this expedition would be the hardest one. Right at its beginning Dhaulagiri took the life of youngest one of this friendship – Piotr Morawski fell into crevasse and despite of Peter’s and other men‘s endeavor, who pulled him out, the rescue did not came off successful and Piotr died.
Peter Hamor as we (maybe) do not know him
The fact that Peter is a pioneer in his work life too can not be denied. In 1994 it was just him who firstly brought in that time unknown and exotic activity bungee jumping! Except of operating bungee jumps in the Strbske Pleso area (High Tatras), in Bratislava as well as in the other Slovak towns, Peter organizes various events focused on mountaineering and/or other sport activities practiced in the outdoor mountain areas. What is more, Peter organizes survival trainings in the countryside, and teambuilding activities focused on development of teamwork.
:-)... Well, rich life, what do you think?!
Therefore, we are very happy that Peter Hamor, despite of his full schedule, was able to exclude some of his time to visit our festival! There will be much to speak about!
