1958 - An American team led by Nicholas Clinch makes the first ascent, via Roch ridge.[2]:208 1975 - Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler reached the summit on a new route (northwest route) in pure alpine style (first time on an 8000-metre peak) taking three days total.[3]:212 One day later, a team of three led by Austrian Hanns Schell reached the summit on the American route.[3]:213 1977 - The fourth successful ascent by two Slovenians (Nejc Zaplotnik and Andrej Stremfelj), again on a new route. Team member Drago Bregar died.[3]:213 1980 - Frenchmen Maurice Barrard and Georges Narbaud[3]:213 are successful with the fifth ascent and pass the South Ridge for the first time.[4] 1981 - A Japanese team follows the Clinch route with fixed ropes for the sixth successful ascent.[3]:214[4] 1982 - Michael Dacher, Siegfried Hupfauer and Günter Sturm of a German expedition summit via a new route on the north face. In the same year, French Marie-José Valençot is the first woman who reaches the summit.