70 years of the first ascent of K2. The South Tyrolean Erich Abram as a member of the expedition and decisive helper
On Saturday 31 July 1954 at around 6 p.m., the Italian mountaineers Achille Compagnoni and Lino Lacedelli reach the second highest peak in the world, K2 (8,611 m), in the Karakoram on the border between Pakistan and China. They are members of a strategically and militarily planned Italian expedition led by Ardito Desio, professor of geology in Milan, who were to conquer K2 for the first time after numerous unsuccessful attempts. Around 500 Pakistani Sherpas and porters are also part of the expedition, carrying the twelve tons of equipment – including five kilometres of rope and 230 oxygen bottles – to the base camp at an altitude of just under 5,000 metres and then further up the mountain.
DVD “Heimat/Front. Lienz and the War 1914–1918“
(in German, Italian und English)
The Tyrolean Archive of photographic documentation and art (TAP) provides an insight into the history of the town of Lienz and its inhabitants in WWI using selected photographs.
Women in Photography: Historica collections Tirol – Südtirol/Alto Adige – Trentino
An Exhibition in five towns of the Interreg project „Lichtbild/Argento vivo“
18.05.–30.06.2019
Lienz Spitalskirche
Bruneck/Brunico Stadtmuseum/Museo civico
Bozen/Bolzano Stadtmuseum/Museo Civico
Innsbruck Zeughaus
Trento Palazzo Roccabruna (24.05.–27.07.2019)
The exhibition displays treasures from numerous photographic archives in Tyrol, Alto Adige and Trentino, which have started a rare collaboration aimed at promoting historical photography as a mirror of technical and cultural changes and a substantial part of the cultural heritage.
New DVD “Schlaglicht. Lienz and the Valley Floor“
(in German, Italian und English)
The Tyrolean Archive of photographic documentation and art (TAP) presents a selection of photographs documenting the development of Lienz and the valley floor from the late 19th century to the present day.
Publication “Lebensader. Die Felbertauernstraße damals und heute"
On the 50th anniversary of the opening of the main road Felbertauern, a new book is edited on behalf of the Felbertauernstraße Inc. The book illustrates the long, but finally successful, struggle for this essential north-south connection in the alps. The route Mittersill-Matrei in East Tyrol, opened for the traffic on 25 June 1967, can truly be called as the ‘vital line’ for the district Lienz and Pinzgau in Salzburg. In addition to that, also the nearest districts Kitzbühel and Kufstein in North Tyrol as well as ‘Spittal an der Drau’ in Carinthia have been made accessible for tourists and others. Therefore, at this time – the motorways of Brenner and Tauern have not yet existed - the new road was said to have a ‘European’ dimension.
