Helga Hengge
Helga Hengge (born July 9, 1966 in Chicago ) is a German journalist , author and mountaineer and the first German woman to successfully master Mount Everest with ascent and descent. She lives in Munich.
Life
After graduating from high school in 1985, Helga Hengge worked as a fashion journalist and studied marketing, philosophy and film at New York University from 1991 to 1995 .
In 1996 she started free climbing . After several six-thousanders in South America and Nepal and taking part in a tour to Base Camp III of Cho Oyu , she took part in an American-New Zealand expedition to Mount Everest in 1999, led by Russell Brice . On May 27, 1999, Hengge was the first German woman to complete the Mount Everest North Route and the first German woman to successfully complete the entire ascent of Mount Everest. The German Hannelore Schmatz , who chose the southern route, was already on the summit in 1979, but died on the descent. In October 2001, Hengge managed to climb the central Shishapangma summit. In October 2010, Hengge was able to reach the summit of the Carstensz pyramid . In 2011, she climbed Mount McKinley in Alaska, the seventh of the Seven Summits .
School in Tzombuk
In autumn 2002, a school for the children was built in Tzombuk , 4,750 meters above sea level , at the foot of Mount Everest with the help of Helga Hengge, the village elder Kasang and the villagers . Tzombuk (also Zamphuk or Zombuk ) is a village in Tingri County . Members of the Yak-Pa , a people in Tibet, live here . The village is located a few kilometers north of the Ronbuk monastery . The project received further support, including from mountaineers like Russell Brice.
literature
- Literature by and about Helga Hengge in the catalog of the German National Library
- Helga Hengge, only the sky is higher. My way to Mount Everest. 2007. ISBN 978-3-42-677566-0 .
- Helga Hengge, Seven Summits Adventure . 2017. ISBN 978-3-00-048110-9 .
- Planet-Wissen.de media library, interview and broadcast on Mount Everest.
Web links
- Official website
- Hengge at everesthistory.com
- Conversation with Helga Hengge, Weltwach , March 2018
Individual evidence
- ↑ Publications of the Everest climber Dr. Hartmut Bielefeldt: Some aspects of the climbing statistics April 8, 2003 Everest
- ↑ WDR / SWR / BR-alpha broadcast Planet Wissen Planet Wissen ( Memento from May 19, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Tzombuk Lop-tha We're building a school , publications by Helga Hengge Tzombuk
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hengge, Helga |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German journalist and mountaineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 9, 1966 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |