Rannveig Aamodt (born 3 January 1984 in Molde, Norway) is a
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rock climber
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Rannveig Aamodt was born on 3 January 1984 in Molde, Norway.Rannveig Aamodt web page (retrieved April 4, 2014) At 22 years old, she became one of the youngest people to complete a 3,800-kilometer winter ski traverse of Norway, starting at the country's southernmost point (the lighthouse at Lindesnes) and ending 14 weeks later at the northernmost point on the mainland (Nordkapp). Aamodt began the unassisted journey in 2006 on her birthday with fellow adventurer Anne Grete Nebell. The pair was accompanied by two Greenland dogs, which helped them pull their supply-laden
anchor
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in an unusual rope configuration. She suffered dislocation/fractures of both ankles (one open), 3 vertebral compression fractures, a pelvis fracture, various fractures of the small bones in her feet, an open fracture/dislocation of her right elbow, and tears and ruptures of tendons in her ankles and upper arm. She used a wheelchair for 2 months but returned to climbing. Eight months post the accident, she redpointed , two grades higher then she was climbing at pre-accident.