Lene Gammelgaard

Lene Gammelgaard (born 18 December 1961) is a Danish climber, author, and motivational speaker. Gammelgaard is the 35th woman, and first Scandinavian woman, to climb Mount Everest,^[1] reaching the summit via the South East Ridge on 10 May 1996, as part of Scott Fischer's tragic expedition. Her book Climbing High (1998) recounts the 1996 Everest disaster when a storm took the lives of Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, and six other climbers. Her book sold over 1 million copies and was translated into 13 languages. Gammelgaard was portrayed in the film, Everest (2015), by actress Charlotte Bøving [de].^[2]

See also

• List of 20th-century summiters of Mount Everest
• List of Mount Everest records

References

External links

• "Official website". LeneGammelgaard.com.

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Mount Everest disaster of 1996

Survivors

• Ang Dorje Sherpa
• Jon Krakauer
• Beck Weathers
• Neal Beidleman
• Lene Gammelgaard
• Anatoli Boukreev
• Lopsang Jangbu Sherpa
• Michael Groom (climber)
• Sandy Hill (mountaineer)
• Pete Schoening
• Makalu Gau

Dead

• Andy Harris (mountain guide)
• Scott Fischer
• Rob Hall
• Tsewang Samanla and Dorje Morup (Green Boots)
• Yasuko Namba

Media

• Into Thin Air
• Into Thin Air: Death on Everest
• The Climb (book)
• Everest (1998 film)
• Everest (2015 film)
• After the Wind
• Climbing High

Expeditions

• Adventure Consultants
• Mountain Madness
• 1996 Indo-Tibetan Border Police expedition to Mount Everest

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