Felix Berg

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Felix Berg (born December 19, 1980 in Berlin ) is a German professional climber and mountaineer .

Berg is one of the best all-round mountaineers in the world. He reached four eight-thousanders and seven seven-thousanders as well as difficult climbing tours in rock and ice. He works as an expedition leader and managing director for SummitClimb .

Life

Felix Berg started climbing at the age of 12 in the Berchtesgadener Land. Despite the distance to the mountains of Berlin, he intensified the sport during his school days on the artificial facilities of the capital, during the holidays in the mountains. After graduating from high school in 2000, I made my first trips abroad, first to South America , then to the Himalayas , and studied mathematics (diploma 2007) and physics. In Africa he achieved numerous first ascents on Mount Poi and Mount Kenya . At the age of 23, Felix Berg climbed Mount Everest as an expedition leader , making him the first Berlin and to date youngest German climber. While filming a book by Robert Steiner , Felix Berg was seriously injured by falling rocks in February 2012. After the rehabilitation, there were again ascents of high mountains, the shooting of new routes and sport climbing up to 8a on sight . He reached the eight-thousanders Broad Peak , Cho Oyu and Gasherbrum II without artificial oxygen. He climbed Gasherbrum II with Adam Bielecki via a new route variant through the west face.

Important climbing tours and expeditions

  • 2001: Ama Dablam , summit on October 12th over the SW ridge, Nepal
  • 2002: Kangchenjunga , north face with reversal at 8300 m, co-leader of the expedition, Nepal
  • 2003: Mount Poi, first ascent (ground-up) of the Eastern Groove (7b + / A1, 700 m), Kenya
  • 2004: Mount Kenya , first ascent at Point John (7b, 300 m), Kenya
  • 2004: Mount Everest , summit on May 29 over the north ridge, co-leader of the expedition, Tibet
  • 2005: Difficult multi-pitch routes in the Alps, On Sight ascents up to 7c, Switzerland
  • 2006: Sport climbing: On Sight to 8a, red point ascent of 'Theater' (8b), Europe
  • 2008: Cotopaxi , Chimborazo and trainee , solo ascent, Ecuador
  • 2008: Spantik , turning back to 6000 m altitude - rescue operation in the event of a third-party accident, expedition leader, Pakistan
  • 2009: Mount Kenya , speed ascent of the main summit Nelion in 56min and Bation in 1h12min, Kenya
  • 2009: Cholatse , summit on October 11th over the SW ridge, Nepal
  • 2010: Baruntse , summit on November 3rd over the normal route, expedition leader, Nepal
  • 2012: Grandes Jorasses , accident while filming
  • 2013: Baruntse , summit on November 4th via the normal route, expedition leader, Nepal
  • 2014: Broad Peak , summit on July 23rd via normal route, expedition leader, Pakistan
  • 2015: Muztagata , Pik Korschenewskaja and Pik Ismoil Somoni , expedition leader, China and Tajikistan
  • 2016: Sport climbing: On sight to 8a, Italy and Greece.
  • 2016: Muztagh Tower , attempting a new route, Pakistan, Ama Dablam , ascent again, expedition leader, Nepal
  • 2017: Tilicho Peak , ascent, Annapurna , attempt of a new route, expedition leader, Nepal
  • 2017: Pik Lenin and Khan Tengri , expedition leader, Kyrgyzstan
  • 2018: Cho Oyu , ascent on May 13th, expedition leader, China
  • 2018: Gasherbrum II , ascent on July 16, new variant through the west face, expedition leader, Pakistan.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Felix Berg has made numerous new tours in Kenya on climbing.de
  2. ↑ CLP: what does ... ... Felix Berg ?: His name lives up to . In: The daily newspaper: taz . June 2, 2004, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 22 ( taz.de [accessed October 7, 2018]).
  3. ↑ The way to the summit of Mount Everest ( Memento from March 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on bergleben.de
  4. ↑ a b "Blessed would be in dreams dies - The Grandes Jorasses North Face" in the Internet Movie Base
  5. ^ Adam Bielecki and Felix Berg make First Ascent of Gasherbrum II West Face . ( ukclimbing.com [accessed October 3, 2018]).
  6. ↑ "Speed ​​ascent of Mount Kenya" ( Memento from March 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) on climbing.com
  7. ↑ Summit success at Cho Oyu - SummitClimb News Blog. Accessed October 7, 2018 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Berg, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German climber and mountaineer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin