Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
	Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner in July 2015
Personal information
Nationality	Austrian
Born	13 December 1970 (age 53); Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria
Occupation(s)	Mountaineer, speaker, trained nurse
Website	www.gerlinde-kaltenbrunner.at/en/
Climbing career
Known for	First woman to climb the 14 eight-thousanders in alpine style, without supplemental oxygen or porters

Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 13 December 1970) is an Austrian mountaineer. In August 2011, she became the second woman to climb the fourteen eight-thousanders and the first woman to do so without using supplemental oxygen or high-altitude porters.^[1]^[2]^[3] In 2012, she won the prestigious National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award.^[4]

^ "Austrian woman claims Himalayas climbing record". BBC News. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-24.
^ "Austrian is first woman to scale 14 peaks without oxygen"
^ Joanna Jolly; Stephen Mulvey (27 August 2010). "New doubts over Korean Oh Eun-Sun's climbing record". BBC News. Retrieved 15 August 2013.
^ "National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award | 2012"

[BBC_News-1] "Austrian woman claims Himalayas climbing record". BBC News. 23 August 2011. Retrieved 2011-08-24.

[2] "Austrian is first woman to scale 14 peaks without oxygen"

[3] Joanna Jolly; Stephen Mulvey (27 August 2010). "New doubts over Korean Oh Eun-Sun's climbing record". BBC News. Retrieved 15 August 2013.

[4] "National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award | 2012"

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