Peter Aschenbrenner was an Austrian Guide who participated in the 1934 and led the 1953 expedition to Nanga Parbat. He developed this ice axe design in the early 1930s.

The Aschenbrenner ice axe was the most successful wood-shafted ice axe of all time. They were widely used until wood shafts went out of fashion.

↑ 138: Stubai Aschenbrenner

• Made in Austria [1960s].
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 33x23 mm.
• Fixed Head.
• Curved adze with straight edge.
• Adze: 80(l)x60(w)x0(curve) mm.
• Straight Alpine pick with a diamond-point tip and with 15 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 136(l)x17(h)x8(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 63(l)x10(w)x10(t) mm.
• The glide ring and stop are missing..
• General purpose mountaineering axe that excels at step cutting.
• The Stubai logo dates this axe to the 1960s.

"Führerpickel" means "Leader's pick." Think of this as a "Mountain Guide" model in a marketing sense.

The "Original Aschenbrenner" had a flat adze. The "Aschenbrenner Führerpickel" was developed in the 1950s and had a curved adze.

↑ 178: Stubai Aschenbrenner Führerpickel

• Made in Austria [ca. 1980].
• Wood Handle.
• Shaft: 34x23 mm.
• Fixed Head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with curved edge.
• Adze: 75(l)x62(w)x9(curve) mm.
• Straight Alpine pick with a neutral-clearance chisel tip and with 5 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 140(l)x18(h)x8(t) mm.
• Triangular spike.
• Spike: 55(l)x14(w)x9(t) mm.
• Glide ring with nylon web leash.
• Short-headed Ascbenbrenner with a concave adze. This particular axe has a very long shaft, even for me.
• This version seems to have been manufactured around the 1980s.
• It is thought that this type of Aschenbrenner was the only one with a carabiner hole.

The Nanga Parbat had a straight pick. The Nanga Parbat Extrem had a curved pick and more droop to the adze.

↑ 139: Stubai Nanga Parbat

• Made in Austria [1960s].
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 33x22 mm.
• Fixed Head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with scalloped edge.
• Adze: 75(l)x63(w)x4(curve) mm.
• Straight Alpine pick with a positive-clearance chisel tip and with 5 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 155(l)x26(h)x8(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 61(l)x10(w)x10(t) mm.
• Glide ring with adjustable web strap.
• This is an earlier wood-shafted, straight pick version of my normal mountaineering axe.

↑ 072: Stubai Nanga Parbat Extrem

• Made in Austria [1960s].
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 33x23 mm.
• Fixed Head with carabiner hole.
• Drooped adze with scalloped edge.
• Adze: 15(l)0x2(w)6x7(curve) mm.
• Curved Alpine pick with a positive-clearance chisel tip and with 5 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 150(l)x26(h)x7(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 51(l)x14(w)x10(t) mm.
• Glide ring with adjustable web strap.
• This is an earlier wood-shafted version of my normal mountaineering axe.

↑ 029: Stubai Nanga Parbat Extrem

• Made in Austria [1976].
• Fiberglass Shaft.
• Shaft: 33x23 mm.
• Fixed Head with carabiner hole.
• Drooped adze with scalloped edge.
• Adze: 75(l)x65(w)x4(curve) mm.
• Curved Alpine pick with a positive-clearance chisel tip and with 5 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 150(l)x26(h)x7(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 51(l)x14(w)x10(t) mm.
• I replaced the glide ring and stop with an aftermarket Black Diamond leash.
• This is my normal mountaineering axe, although I wish that I had gotten a slightly longer one. The scalloped adze works well in ice. I reshaped the pick to give it a positive clearance for hard ice. The foam-cored fiberglass shaft does not chill the hands like metal shafts do.

↑ 179: Stubai Stadler

• Made in Austria [1960s].
• Wood Handle.
• Shaft: 34x21 mm.
• Fixed Head with carabiner hole.
• Curved adze with curved edge.
• Adze: 85(l)x67(w)x5(curve) mm.
• Curved Alpine pick with a neutral-clearance chisel tip and with 7 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 165(l)x31(h)x9(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 65(l)x11(w)x11(t) mm.
• Glide ring, strap is missing.
• Heavy head gives this axe extra power for stepcutting, but unless you plan a lot of old-school stepcutting, choose a lighter axe.
• The older Stubai logo dates this axe to the 1960s.

↑ 165: Stubai "Stubby"

• Made in Austria [1950s?].
• Wood Handle.
• Shaft: 35x25 mm.
• Fixed Head.
• Adze is strongly curved in both directions.
• Adze: 80(l)x64(w)x8.5(curve) mm.
• Curved Alpine pick with a pointed tip.
• Pick: 140(l)x22(h)x7(t) mm.
• This appears to have been cut from a full-length axe. The head matches the Swiss Military axe #153 head but the stampings are different.
• The back of the pick is stamped with ALBERT LUTZ AG and TEUFEN. Albert Lutz Sportartikelfabrik AG of Teufen, Appenzell Ausserrhoden, Switzerland sold these axes.

↑ 153: Stubai Swiss Military

• Made in Austria [1970s].
• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 34x23 mm.
• Fixed Head.
• Adze is strongly curved in both directions.
• Adze: 85(l)x68(w)x10(curve) mm.
• Straight Alpine pick with a pointed tip.
• Pick: 155(l)x22(h)x7(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 63(l)x12(w)x12(t) mm.
• The adze on this axe has more curvature, both front-to-back and side-to-side, than any other ice axe I've seen.
• This model was used by the Swiss army. Stamped with a Swiss Cross.

↑ 158: Stubai Wallner

• Wood Shaft.
• Shaft: 33x22 mm. (Grip: 35x24 mm.)
• Fixed Head with carabiner hole.
• Drooped adze strongly curved in both directions with a scalloped edge.
• Adze: 85(l)x63(w)x8(curve) mm.
• Straight Alpine pick with a diamond-point tip and with 6 ventral teeth.
• Pick: 125(l)x20(h)x7(t) mm.
• Square spike.
• Spike: 61(l)x10(w)x10(t) mm.
• Glide ring with web strap (loop cut off).
• The scalloped adze works well in ice. The flared diamond-pointed pick fractures the ice well when step cutting.
• Named after Friedrich Wallner, a mountain guide in the region of the Tyrol.

↑ 036: Stubai Tirol

• Made in Austria.
• Plastic-covered Aluminum Shaft.
• Shaft: 35x25 mm.
• Full modular head.
• Tubular adze.
• Adze: 65(l)x55(d) mm.
• Modular waterfall ice pick with a neutral-clearance chisel tip and with seven notches near tip then four coarse teeth.
• Pick: 14(l)3x30(h)x6(t) mm.
• Triangular spike.
• Spike: 47(l)x25(w)x15(t) mm.
• Equipped with an aftermarket Charlet Moser leash.
• Unique 54 mm. circular adze and Extrem 150 pick for hard ice. Shown with modular hammer face to substitute for the adze, and an unusual substitute spike as well.