Nicole Niquille

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Nicole Niquille (born May 13, 1956 in Freiburg im Üechtland ) is a former Swiss mountain guide . She has been living in a wheelchair since an accident, is an author and supports a hospital project in Nepal .

Nicole Niquille (2011)

Life

Nicole Niquille grew up in the Friborg pre-alpine region of Charmey . She completed her studies as a secondary school teacher . In 1975 she started climbing. Together with Erhard Loretan , she undertook challenging tours in the Alps and the Himalayas , including 1985 to K2 , where she reached over 8000 m, and in 1986 to Mount Everest from the Tibetan side.

In 1986 she was the first Swiss woman to receive a mountain guide diploma. The 1991 documentary Faces of Switzerland shows her as a mountain guide on the ascent to the Zinalrothorn with a customer.

In May 1994 she was hit by a stone while collecting mushrooms and suffered a traumatic brain injury with damage to the mobility center. After 20 months of rehabilitation, she passed the specialist examination as a landlady and ran a restaurant on Lac de Taney in the Valais Alps for 14 years .

A Sherpa worked in the restaurant , the brother of Pasang Lhamu , the first Nepalese woman to climb Everest and die in the descent. With her second husband Marco Vuadens, Nicole Niquille supports the foundation in honor of Pasang Lhamu, which opened the "Hôpital Pasang Lhamu & Nicole Niquille" in Lukla at the foot of Everest in 2005 .

Nicole Niquille travels to Nepal several times a year for her project, and is back in her original job as a teacher. She is an honorary member of the Swiss Guide Association.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ «I think the recipe fortunately is simple». Interview with Nicole Niquille, Neue Zürcher Zeitung , December 23, 2011
  2. ↑ Caroline Fink , Karin Steinbach Tarnutzer : First on the rope. Pioneers in rock and ice. Tyrolia Verlag , Innsbruck-Vienna 2013.

literature

  • Nicole Niquille: Et soudain, une montagne dans le ciel ... Editions Favre SA, Lausanne 2009
  • Nicole Niquille and others: Un hôpital dans la Vallée des Sherpas. Photographit, La Chaux-de-Fonds 2010
  • Nicole Niquille: And suddenly ... a mountain in the sky. Translated from the French by Hans Peter Treichler . AS Verlag , Zurich 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Niquille, Nicole
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss mountain guide
DATE OF BIRTH May 13, 1956
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Üechtland