Alix of Melle
Alix von Melle (born September 1, 1971 in Hamburg ) is the most successful German high-altitude climber with seven eight-thousanders climbed .
Life
Alix von Melle grew up as the third of four children of a vocational school teacher and a businessman in Ahrensburg . After graduating from high school, she studied geography in Hamburg and from the end of 1992 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . For several years she headed the office of the Bavarian State Association of the German Alpine Club . Today she works in the press and public relations department of the Munich Globetrotter branch and lives in Höhenkirchen-Siegertsbrunn . Her husband has been the extreme mountaineer Luis Stitzinger since 2011 .
Rockclimbing
Alix von Melle came to mountaineering through ski mountaineering; today she is a specialist instructor in ski mountaineering . In 2001 she was the first German woman to climb the south face ( French route with Slovene and Messner variants ( VI + )) to the Aconcagua ( 6961 m ). The Muztagata ( 7509 m ) followed a year later . In 2004 she was able to climb the Ama Dablam ( 6814 m ) over the southwest ridge (VI) and the Huascaran Norte ( 6652 m ). In 2005 she reached the summit of Mount McKinley ( 6190 m ). Von Melle climbed to the summit of Pik Lenin ( 7134 m ) in 2007.
Eight-thousanders
| No. | date | mountain | Height ( m ) | route | annotation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | June 29, 2006 | Gasherbrum II | 8,034 | Southwest Spur (III), Banana Ridge | |
| 2 | June 21, 2008 | Nanga Parbat | 8,125 | Kinshofer Route (V) | Second German woman on the summit together with Helga Söll |
| 3 | May 18, 2009 | Dhaulagiri | 8,167 | Northeast Ridge (II) | Second German woman on the summit together with Helga Söll |
| May 2010 | Makalu | 8,485 | French route | Reversal at 8050 meters due to the cold | |
| 4th | October 2, 2010 | Cho Oyu | 8,188 | Tichy route | |
| 5 | July 25, 2011 | Broad Peak | 8,051 | West ridge and west flank | |
| May 2012 | Manaslu | 8,163 | Northeast flank and northeast ridge | Reversal at 7,990 meters due to a thunderstorm | |
| 6th | 1st of May 2013 | Shishapangma | 8,027 | North ridge | |
| May 2014 | Makalu | 8,485 | French route | Reversal at 8,250 meters due to severe symptoms of altitude sickness | |
| 7th | September 30, 2017 | Manaslu | 8,163 | Northeast flank and northeast ridge |
literature
- Gaby Funk: Alix von Melle & Luis Stitzinger - A couple with a shared passion for the high (PDF; 849 kB) . In: DAV Panorama - magazine of the German Alpine Club . 65th Volume, No. 4, 2013, ISSN 1437-5923 , pp. 92-97
plant
- Passion for life . Together with Luis Stitzinger . Malik-Verlag , Munich / Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-89029-442-1
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Most successful German mountaineer. Von Melle defeats the Cho Oyu . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , October 14, 2010.
- ↑ Clemens Kratzer: Interview with Alix von Melle. alpin.de, March 16, 2011, accessed May 7, 2013 .
- ↑ a b teamwork. (No longer available online.) Goclimbamountain.de, archived from the original on March 5, 2012 ; Retrieved May 7, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Axel Klemmer: Alix von Melle: On the fifth eight-thousander. 4-seasons.de, May 16, 2011, accessed May 7, 2013 .
- ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Mountaineering couple takes next eight-thousander world online, January 12, 2013, accessed on February 22, 2014.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Melle, Alix from |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German extreme mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1st September 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hamburg , Germany |