Billi Bierling
Billi Bierling (born Barbara Susanne Bierling in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Bavaria , June 16, 1967 ) is a German mountaineer and journalist. She is the first German female mountaineer who managed to climb Mount Everest via the southern route and came back alive.
Life
Billi Bierling first climbed the Himalayas in 1998 . She lived as a translator and journalist in London for ten years and in Bern for four years before moving to Nepal's capital Kathmandu in 2004 to work as an assistant for the "Everest chronicler" Elizabeth Hawley .
Billi Bierling is the first German woman who successfully climbed Mount Everest via the southern route from the Nepalese side on May 21, 2009. The first German on the summit, Hannelore Schmatz , had already made the ascent via this route in 1979, but died on the descent. Bierling is the third German to survive the ascent and descent to Mount Everest. She earned the money for her ascent of Everest through a six-month job at the UN in Jerusalem .
As the first German female mountaineer, she climbed the Manaslu in 2010 and the Lhotse in 2011 ; in October 2011 she was the first German female mountaineer to climb Manaslu without oxygen support. On May 25, 2014 she reached, u. a. together with Heidi Sand, the summit of Makalu . At the beginning of October 2016, she reached the summit of Cho Oyu without the aid of bottled oxygen .
Bierling leads expeditions on six-thousanders in Nepal. As a freelance journalist, she writes articles for mountaineering magazines , German media, including the Süddeutsche Zeitung and Deutschlandradio , as well as for English-language radio stations and the UN refugee agency ( UNHCR ).
literature
- Fifteen questions to Billi Bierling , in: Walther Lücker : The highest mountain. Dream and Nightmare Everest , Malik 2013, ISBN 978-3-89029-430-8
Web links
- Official website of Billi Bierling
- Stefan Nestler: Billi, the mountain climber who writes . In: Deutsche Welle . March 14, 2013.
- Lukas Eberle: Climbing Chronicler Billi Bierling: 'People Are Losing Respect for Mt. Everest . In: Der Spiegel . May 29, 2012. (English)
- Stephanie Geiger: Bavarian on an extreme search for truth in the Himalayas . In: Welt am Sonntag . 4th January 2017.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mount Everest. “No, that can't go on” , interview with Billi Bierling, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , April 30, 2014.
- ^ A b c Lena Reiner: Everest Tourism: "They are more lucky than they are" . In: Spiegel Online . September 13, 2009.
- ↑ Hans Kammerlander, Walther Lücke: Seven Second Summits. About mountains around the world , Malik Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-89029-427-8 , p. 255
- ↑ Billi Bierling is the first German woman on the Lhotse (8515 meters) on merkur-online.de
- ^ [Himex]: Report on the ascent of Makalu in May 2014 ( Memento from May 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ). May 28, 2014.
- ↑ Stephanie Geiger: Bavarian woman on an extreme search for truth in the Himalayas
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bierling, Billi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bierling, Barbara Susanne (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mountaineer and journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 16, 1967 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Garmisch-Partenkirchen , Bavaria |