Jürgen Oblinger, born in 1984, is a trained engineer and IVBV ski and mountain guide. As a Basic participant, he got his first taste of 7000m altitude air with us on Pik Lenin (summit) and Khan Tengri (attempted one-day-ascent, 6700m). That was in 2017, the same year he quit his engineering job to make a full-time living from the mountains. Before that, he had climbed wild north faces, already was a strong rock, ice and ski alpinist. On two private trips to the Peruvian Andes, he climbed lesser-known 5000-meter peaks and a few 6000-meter peaks, sometimes via technically challenging routes. In the meantime, Obi, as Jürgen likes to be called, is about to complete his mountain guide exam. In 2019 Obi took over his first tour guide for us on Mount Kenya and since then it is hard to imagine our team without him. In 2021 he lead our expedition preparations and a Lenin Peak ski expedition. He lives together with his partner in the Allgäu (southern German Alps) on a rustic mountain pasture, enjoying the simplicity and modesty in nature.