Benedikt Boehm

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Benedikt "Bene" Böhm (born August 15, 1977 in Munich ) is a German extreme ski mountaineer and skier from Munich. Together with his late schoolmate Sebastian Haag and Matthias Robl, he briefly held the record in ski touring racing on Muztagata . In 2012 he climbed the Manaslu in a record time of 23.5 hours.

biography

Böhm grew up in the Harlaching district of Munich with five siblings. One of his brothers is the artist Corbinian Böhm . In his childhood he was a cross-country skier at the Munich ski club Hochvogel and trained mountain running in the summer months. After graduating from the Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium , he did his basic military service in the ski train with the mountain hunters .

Böhm was a member of the German national ski mountaineering team from 2003 to 2006 and took part in the 2006 World Ski Mountaineering Championships in Cuneo, Italy. He studied economics at Oxford Brookes University and the University of Massachusetts .

During the Double8 expedition led by Benedikt Böhm, which was supported by Ueli Steck on the second attempt , Sebastian Haag and the 32-year-old Italian mountaineer Andrea Zambaldi were killed in an avalanche accident on the Shishapangma in September 2014. The aim of the expedition was to climb the two eight-thousanders Shishapangma and Cho Oyu in speed ski style in just seven days . They had to abandon their first attempt to climb Shishapangma a week before the accident because of fresh snow and wind and the risk of avalanches. On September 24th, they and their teammate Martin Maier were hit by an avalanche and dragged down about 600 meters in altitude. Only Martin Maier was able to free himself from the snow masses. Due to the weather conditions and a flight ban imposed by the Chinese military, the search for the bodies of the two climbers who had died had to be stopped. Martin Maier, rescued by a Sherpa , later raised allegations against Böhm and Steck.

Professionally, he is an international sales manager at the outdoor and mountain sports company Oberalp . He currently lives in Aschheim near Munich.

Sporting successes

  • 2004: 5th place at the German championship in ski mountaineering
  • 2005: 5th place in the German championship in ski mountaineering
  • 23 August 2005: Speed ​​record in high-altitude ski mountaineering in alpine style with downhill skiing on Muztagata together with Sebastian Haag under the direction of Matthias Robl (difference in altitude: 3100 m; ascent time: 9:25 h; descent: 1:16 h including a 13-minute rest at the summit; total time: 10 : 41 h)
  • August 3, 2006: Speed ​​record on Gasherbrum II with a complete ski run, together with Sebastian Haag under the direction of Luis Stitzinger
  • 2008: 2nd place in the “Seniors I” age group at the Patrouille des Glaciers together with Georg Nickaes and Gerhard Reithmeier
  • 2010: 2nd place in the “Senior II” age group at the Patrouille des Glaciers together with Javier Martín de Villa and Pete Swenson
  • September 30, 2012: Speed ​​record in high-altitude ski mountaineering to the summit of Manaslu and back down in 23.5 hours

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Mountaineering duo "BB" in a tempo exchange , Merkur online, August 22, 2006.
  2. ↑ Expedition Manaslu 8163m - Benedikt Böhm ( Memento from January 11, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Sebastian Haag died yesterday under an avalanche on the Sisha Pangma.
  4. ↑ Misfortune at Shisha Pangma: Two mountaineers are missing after attempting a world record in the Himalayas. In: Spiegel Online from September 25, 2014 (accessed September 25, 2014).
  5. ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Avalanche death on the Shisha Pangma , Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, September 26, 2014.
  6. ↑ Disaster in the Himalayas: Bodies cannot be saved ( memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) , Südtirol News, September 27, 2014.
  7. ↑ Fabienne Riklin: Drama in the death zone. In: Switzerland on Sunday 9 July 2016.
  8. ↑ www.explorersweb.com - The first German ski descent of G2
  9. ↑ 2010 Patrouille des Glaciers ( Memento from June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ↑ Sara Peschke: Extreme mountaineer Böhm: "Death is part of this sport" , Spiegel online, October 22, 2012.
personal data
SURNAME Bohm, Benedikt
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Böhn, Bene (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German extreme ski mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH 15th August 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich