Ines Papert (born 5 April 1974) is a German alpine climber, and a world champion

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and mixed climber best known for her competition ice climbing awards and difficult alpine ascents. She has made a number of

first ascents In mountaineering, a first ascent (abbreviated to FA in guide books) is the first successful, documented attainment of the top of a mountain or the first to follow a particular climbing route A climbing route is a path by which a climber rea ...

and has broken difficulty grade milestones for female climbers.

Early life

Ines Papert grew up in the northern Saxon town of

Bad Düben Bad Düben (), until 1948 Düben is a town in the district of Nordsachsen in Saxony in Germany. It is situated at the southern end of the Düben Heath Nature Park ( Düben Heath), between the rivers Elbe and Mulde, which runs through the city cen ...

, Germany. She comes from a musical family and plays piano and saxophone. After completing her education as a physiotherapist, Papert left her home in Saxony, Germany in 1993 and moved to Berchtesgaden,

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in the Alps. It was only there that she discovered her interest in the mountains. She began to learn about hiking, biking, and skiing before moving on to mountain climbing. Her first major mountain climb was in 1996 on

Watzmann The Watzmann ( bar, Watzmo) is a mountain in the Berchtesgaden Alps south of the village of Berchtesgaden. It is the third highest in Germany, and the highest located entirely on German territory. Three main peaks array on a N-S axis along a r ...

(2713m), which is the highest peak which is entirely within Germany.

Climbing career

In 2006, she won the overall Ice Climbing World Cup, and over the years she won the world cup three more times. On 13 November 2013 she made the first ascent of Likhu Chuli (6719m) in Nepal and reached the summit by herself. Ines was the first woman to climb the

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grade of M11.

Significant Climbs

* 1997 Ascension of the Aconcagua * 1998 Peru Expedition with the ascents of Nevado Pisco, Nevado Alpamayo, Nevado Artesonraju and Torre del Paron * 1999 Yosemite El Capitan; the route "The Nose" * 2001 her first rock climbing route in the French eighth grade * 2002 different (ice) climbing routes * 2003 Eiger North Face, first red point ascent of the route "Symphonie de Liberte" (then the most difficult route on the wall) and Eiskletterrouten (Mixed) to degree (M 11) * 2004 first rock climbing route in French degrees 8b "shadow king" in the Bavarian Alps * 2006 redpoint climb "Pellisier" (in French degrees 8b) in the north wall of the Cima Grande. * 2007, the first repetition of the hitherto well hardest mixed route in the world ''Law and Order'' (M 13) * 2009 first ascent of the route "Power of Silence" '(7c +, 11 pitches) by the South Face of Middle Huey Spire in Canada. * 2009 Ascent of the Canadian "Lotus Flower Tower" in the "Onsight" over the Southeast Pillar (6b) * 2010 first ascent of the mixed routes "Triple X" (VIII, 8) on Ben Nevis and "Bavarinthia" (IX, 9) at the Cairngorms, Coire an Lochain in Scotland * 2011 "Super Cirill" 9 Seachängeroute at the Parete di Sonlerto (Ticino) in grade 8a / 8a + * 2011 "Great Walls of China" 600 meters on Mount Kyzyl Asker in Kyrgyzstan ; Difficulty: ABO, WI 7+, M 7 * 2012 repetition of "Illuminati" M11 +, WI 6+, near St. Ulrich, Tyrol * 2013 first ascent of Likhu Chuli I in Nepal, which she climbed solo. * 2013 first ascent of the route "Azazar" (8a, 9 pitches) in the south-west wall of Tadrarate in Morocco. * 2014 First red-point tour of the route "Without smoke you will die" (8a, 17 ropes) on the north face of the Great Trenches in Italy. * 2015 Second ascent of the mixed route "Holy Grail" (M 12), (W15) * 2016 Fifth ascent of "Riders on the Storm" VI 5.12d A3, the "Torre Central" ( Torres del Paine National Park ), Patagonia * 2016, October. Successful climb of the difficult southeast face of the Kyzyl Asker 5,842m up a new route Lost in China WI5+ M6 1,200m. To acclimatize, she made the second ascent and first free ascent of Border Control WI5 M7 650m on Great Wall of China 5,000m. With Luka Lindič.

Competitions

She has won more than 20 World Cup ice-climbing events.

Personal

She now lives in Bayerisch Gmain. On 22 August 2000, she became a mother to her son Emanuel.

Bibliography

* Ines Papert: ''"Vertical: Life on the Steepest Faces"'' . Delius Klasing, Hamburg 2012

References

External links

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