Tomaž Humar

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  • Golden Ice-Ax 1996 (Piolet d'or 1996)
  • Slovenian alpinist of the year 1996
  • 2000, nomination for the Golden Ice-Ax for his ascent to Daulaghiri (France, 1999)
  • Bloudek award (1999)
  • Silver Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia (1999)
  • Genziana for life achievement (2000, Trento, Italy), he recieved this award at the same time as two of the greatest legend of mountaineering Reinhold Messner and Edmond Hillary
  • nomination for the Golden Ice-Ax for his ascent to Aconcagua (France, 2004)

Numerous publications in a variety of mountaineering magazines around the world.

The movie Reticient wall is rewarded with the Genziana d'Argento in Trento, Italy and with a Grand prix in v Kathmandu.

The movie Daulagiri Express recievede the Golden Camera award in Graz and a Grand prix in Poprad, Slovakia.

His third movie, with the title Chamonix has been recorded in 2003.

"All I wanted was to climb!"

With this word he trys to "excuse" his mountaineering opus. Reinhold Messner though recognizes him as extraordinary alpinist, the one, who has remade mountaineering as great as it was in times of the great Jerzija Kukuczke.

Tomaž is before his time. That it is so he has proven with his ascent to Daulaghiri in 1999.

It is an unrepeatable achievement , with which he has opened a new dimension of classic mountaineering.