Benedikt "Bene" Böhm (born 15 August 1977 in

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

) is a German extreme ski mountaineer and

extreme skier Extreme skiing is performed on long, steep (typically from 45 to 60+ degrees, or grades of 100 to 170 percent) slopes in mountainous terrain. The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s. The first practitioners include Swiss skier ...

. Together with

Sebastian Haag Sebastian Haag (23 May 1978 – 24 September 2014) was a German extreme ski mountaineer and extreme skier. Together with Benedikt Böhm he holds the records in speed ski mountaineering at the Muztagata and the Gasherbrum II. Haag was born in Muni ...

he keeps the records in speed ski mountaineering at the

Muztagata Muztagh Ata or Muztagata (, Музтағ Ата, literally "ice-mountain-father"; ; formerly known as Mount Tagharma or Taghalma and Wi-tagh) is the second highest (7546 metres) of the mountains which form the northern edge of the Tibetan Plate ...

and the

Gasherbrum II Gasherbrum II ( ur, ; ); surveyed as K4, is the 13th highest mountain in the world at above sea level. It is the third-highest peak of the Gasherbrum massif, and is located in the Karakoram, on the border between Gilgit–Baltistan, Pakistan a ...

. Böhm has grown up with five siblings in Harlaching, a borough of Munich. One of his brothers is the German artist Corbinian Böhm. Böhm is member of the national German Skimountaineering Team and member of the ''Dynafit Gore-Tex team''. He also works at Dynafit as an international sales manager.

Selected results

* 2004: ** 5th, German Championship * 2005: ** 5th, German Championship ** speed record in high altitude mountaineering with downhill skiing at the Muztagata together with Sebastian Haag under the leadership of

Matthias Robl Matthias is a name derived from the Greek Ματθαίος, in origin similar to Matthew. People Notable people named Matthias include the following: In religion: * Saint Matthias, chosen as an apostle in Acts 1:21–26 to replace Judas Iscariot * ...

, 23 August 2005 * 2006: ** speed record in high altitude mountaineering with downhill skiing at the Gasherbrum II together with Sebastian Haag under the leadership of

Luis Stitzinger Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic ...

, 3 August 2006

Patrouille des Glaciers

* 2008: 2nd ("seniors I" ranking), together with

Georg Nickaes Georg "Schorsch" Nickaes (born 12 June 1971) is a German ski mountaineer and speaker of the German ski mountaineering team. Nickaes was born in Bad Reichenhall. He enjoys also mountain running and ice climbing, and finished the army mountain gui ...

and

Gerhard Reithmeier Gerhard Reithmeier (born 26 June 1977) from Bergen is a German ski mountaineer. Selected results * 2001: ** German record time, Trofeo Mezzalama (together with Georg Nickaes and Matthias Robl) * 2004: ** 4th, German Championship ** 11th, World C ...

* 2010: 2nd ("seniors II" ranking), together with

Javier Martín de Villa Javier Martín de Villa (born 23 August 1981) is a Spanish ski mountaineer. Martín was born in Madrid. He started ski mountaineering in 1998, competed first in the Trofeo Altos Pirineos race and became a member of the national team in the sam ...

and

Pete Swenson Pete Swenson (born December 25, 1967) from Breckenridge, Colorado, is an American ski mountaineer and Competition Director of the United States Ski Mountaineering Association (USSMA). Swanson attended the Colorado College until 1990. Selected ...

''2010 Patrouille des Glaciers''

External links

Benedikt Böhm
at ''skimountaineering.org'' *

Stefan Winter Stefan Winter (born 16 March 1968''List of licenses ordered by country''

''Germans summit G2 and then ski down: great pictures!''

References

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