Georg "Schorsch" Nickaes (born 12 June 1971) is a German

ski mountaineer Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and then descending on skis. There are two major categories of equipmen ...

and speaker of the German ski mountaineering team. Nickaes was born in

Bad Reichenhall Bad Reichenhall (Central Bavarian: ''Reichahoi'') is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgau Alps (including Mount Staufe ...

. He enjoys also

mountain running Mountain running is a sports discipline which takes place mainly off-road in mountainous terrain, but if there is significant elevation gain on the route, surfaced roads may be used. In this it differs from fell running; also its courses are more ...

and ice climbing, and finished the army mountain guide training in 1994. He started in international ski mountaineering races after 1999. He was buried with two companions by a snow slab during a three-day ski mountaineering a few years ago, but they freed themselves."Interview Georg Nickaes, Lawinenerfahrung"
2b-Sportredaktion, December 22, 2003. Nickaes is married with one child.

Selected results

* 1999: ** German record time, "DIAMIR-Race" * 2001: ** German record time,

Trofeo Mezzalama The Mezzalama Trophy ( it, Trofeo Mezzalama, french: Trophée Mezzalama, a.k.a. ''white marathon''

(together with

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 ...

and Matthias Robl) ** 2nd,

Mountain Attack The "Mountain Attack" is an annual Austrian ski mountaineering Ski mountaineering (abbreviated to skimo) is a skiing discipline that involves climbing mountains either on skis or carrying them, depending on the steepness of the ascent, and the ...

race * 2002: ** 3rd, "International Open", Saalbach * 2004: ** 3rd, German Championship single ** 7th, Mountain Attack race * 2005: ** 5th, German Championship single ** 3rd, European Championship relay race (together with

Franz Graßl Franz Graßl (born 7 March 1965) is a German ski mountaineer. Graßl was born in Berchtesgaden. He is member of the Berchtesgaden branch of the German Alpine Club (DAV) and the Bergwacht. He was member of the German ski-mountaineering team until ...

Stefan Klinger Stefan Klinger (born 24 April 1978) is a German ski mountaineer. Klinger was born in Anger. He inspired his girl friend Stefanie Koch to compete also in the national ski mountaineering team. Selected results * 2003: ** 1st, Predigtstuhl race ...

and Toni Steurer) * 2006: ** 5th,

World Championship A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

relay race (together with Toni Steurer, Franz Graßl and

Martin Echtler Martin Echtler (born 14 January 1969) is a German ski mountaineer. He also competes in mountain running. Echtler was born in Peiting. His sister Christine Echtler-Schleich is also member of the German skimountaineering team. Selected results ...

)

Patrouille des Glaciers

* 2006: 7th ("seniors II" ranking), together with Wolfgang Palzer and Tim Stachel''2006 Patrouille des Glaciers''
, p. 17. * 2008: 2nd ("seniors I" ranking), together with Gerhard Reithmeier and

Benedikt Böhm Benedikt "Bene" Böhm (born 15 August 1977 in Munich) is a German Ski mountaineering, extreme ski mountaineer and Extreme skiing, extreme skier. Together with Sebastian Haag he keeps the records in speed ski mountaineering at the Muztagata and th ...

External links

Georg Nickaes
at ''skimountaineering.com''

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Nickaes, Georg 1971 births Living people German male ski mountaineers German Army personnel People from Bad Reichenhall Sportspeople from Upper Bavaria