Roland Pauligk


Quick Info

From: Australia 🇦🇺
Date of birth: 1st January 1938
Age: 79 years old
Date of death: 22nd January 2017
Gender: Male

German-born Australian migrant. Inventor and manufacturer of the eponymous RP brazed-wire brass micronut crucial to many hard trad. ascents.

Pete O'Donovan:

...I think RPs were used on virtually all high-end trad routes in the late ’70s to late ’80s.

References

[1] https://alpinist.com/features/roland-pauligk-1938-2017-the-man-who-changed-climbing-with-his-brass-micronuts/

Contributors
16 contributions since 29th October 2025.
2 contributions since 29th October 2025.

Quick Info

From: Australia 🇦🇺
Date of birth: 1st January 1938
Date of death: 22nd January 2017
Age: 79 years old
Gender: Male

German-born Australian migrant. Inventor and manufacturer of the eponymous RP brazed-wire brass micronut crucial to many hard trad. ascents.

Pete O'Donovan:

...I think RPs were used on virtually all high-end trad routes in the late ’70s to late ’80s.

References

[1] https://alpinist.com/features/roland-pauligk-1938-2017-the-man-who-changed-climbing-with-his-brass-micronuts/

Contributors
16 contributions since 29th October 2025.
2 contributions since 29th October 2025.

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