Gerlinde kaltenbrunner biography channel


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Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner - first woman to scale all 14, 8,000-meter peaks without supplementary oxygen

  • Where her love of the mountains came from

  • Being inspired at 8 years old by her priest

  • Loving nature from a young age

  • Watching a lecture on K2 and being inspired at 16 years old

  • Going to Pakistan at 23 to climb her first 8,000m peak

  • Telling her parents about her mountaineering dreams

  • Wanting to climb without oxygen

  • Working as a nurse and doing as much endurance training as possible

  • Cycling 40km to work and back again

  • Spending as much time as possible in the mountains

  • Finding the right people to climb with

  • Female role models in mountaineering

  • How her grandmother inspired her passion

  • Climbing Broad Peak (8,027m) in Pakistan

  • Spending 6 days in Islamabad

  • Trying to save a life on the mountain

  • The importance of drinking water at high altitude

  • The importance of routine in high altitude climbing

  • Being very focused and not being a