SPEAKER BUREAU
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TAMARA LUNGER
One of the strongest mountain climbers in the world and the first woman to summit a first 8000m winter ascent.
Among her most important achievements: in 2010 her first mountaineering experience in Nepal at the age of 23, reaching the summit of Lhotse as the youngest woman and in 2014 the summit of K2 , without oxygen, as the second Italian woman in the history of Mountain climbing. In 2016 she attempted the summit of Nanga Parbat in winter with Simone Moro, he conquered it, while she, she gives up at 70 m. from the summit. Mountains are her “playground” of infinite joys and great suffering through which she has learnt and ongoing, to know herself and evolve.
“Every moment I spend in the mountains makes me more aware of who I am, and more grateful to life.”
THEMES
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The value of surrender
Self challenge
The winning team
Balance
One of the strongest mountain climbers in the world and the first woman to summit a first 8000 m winter ascent. She has spent most of her life in the mountains, taking part in competitive sports since she was a child and winning important titles as a member of the national ski-mountaineering team. Among her most important achievements: in 2010 her first mountaineering experience in Nepal at the age of 23, reaching the summit of Lhotse (8516 m) as the youngest woman and in 2014 the summit of K2 (8611 m), without oxygen, as the second Italian woman in the history of Mountain climbing. In February 2016 she attempted the summit of Nanga Parbat in winter with Simone Moro, he conquered it, while she, she gives up at 70mt from the summit due to her physical conditions. In Ultra Running she conquered a 1st place (2014) at the Transalpinerun team with Annemarie Gross. In 2013 she was the main character of “The Great Crossing”, cross-country skiing tour in Pakistan and the ascent of two inviolated and unnamed peaks.
Tamara Lunger has become famous as an athlete capable of extreme climbs but also of extreme sacrifices. After her success on the K2 without oxygen, in 2014 the alpinist Simone Moro invites her to partner with him on a winter expedition, unluckily in 2015, the bad weather conditions in Manaslu made it impossible for them to reach the summit. Simone renews his invitation in 2016, this time for Nanga Parbat. A new long wait at the base camp for the weather conditions to become favorable for the ascent, only on the eightieth day of the expedition, after having reached 6100 m in only one night and almost no acclimatization at all and after climbing for other 4 hours, in the shade with a perceived temperature of -58°. At only 70 metres from the summit, she decides to give up and return alone as she is exhausted by the cold and strenuous effort. Refraining becoming the first woman to make a first winter ascent of an 8,000-meter peak, on one of the highest mountains on earth.
BOOKS
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Author of The Eight thousand, Happiness and I – edited by Rizzoli translated and published in German
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