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It was Reverend Dr. Erich Tischler, a youth group leader in her hometown of Spital am Pyhrn, Upper Austria, who introduced her to the fascinating world of mountains. After the dominical church service, he would take Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner along on numerous tours to the mountains surrounding her hometown. During the following years, she never skipped an opportunity to go climbing.

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

Austrian mountaineer

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 13 December ) is an Austrian mountaineer. In August , she became the second woman to climb the fourteen eight-thousanders and the first woman to act so without using supplemental oxygen or high-altitude porters.[1][2][3] In , she won the prestigious National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award.[4]

Mountaineering

Her interest in mountain climbing developed at a young age, and by the age of 13, she had completed climbing tours at the local Sturzhahn.

As she pursued her nursing training in Vienna, Austria, she continued to hone her skills by participating in numerous ski, ice- and rock-climbing tours. At the age of 32, Kaltenbrunner climbed her fourth m apex, Nanga Parbat, and decided to pursue professional mountain climbing full-time.[5]

Eight-thousanders

Together with Edurne Pasaban and Nives Meroi she is one of only three women who possess climbed the fourteen eight-thousanders.

Kaltenbrunner climbs without supplemental oxygen, which makes her the first gal to officially reach all fourteen eight-thousanders without the use of supplementary oxygen.[6]

She summited Broad Highlight on 12 July , together with Edurne Pasaban.

On 1 May , Kaltenbrunner summited Dhaulagiri, as did Pasaban. At that time both downplayed the aspect of a race between them for the first woman to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders.

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner - first woman to scale all 14, 8,000 ...: Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 13 December ) is an Austrian mountaineer. In August , she became the second woman to ascend the fourteen eight-thousanders and the first woman to do so without using supplemental oxygen or high-altitude porters.

On 6 August , Fredrik Ericsson joined Kaltenbrunner on the way to the summit of K2. Ericsson fell 1, metres (3,&#;ft) and was killed. Kaltenbrunner, who saw Ericsson fall, aborted her summit attempt.[7]

Kaltenbrunner had previously attempted to mount K2 six times [1] and finally succeeded on 23 August , during her seventh expedition to the mountain.[8] National Geographic supported the expedition and provided an account of the monumental North Pillar climb.[9]

Personal life

In , she married her mountaineering companion Ralf Dujmovits,[10] from whom she later divorced.

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