Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner

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Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born December 13, 1970, in Kirchdorf an der Krems, Austria) is an Austrian mountaineer. In summer 2007, she married her mountaineering partner Ralf Dujmovits and lives in the Black Forest (Germany).

Her interest in mountain climbing developed at a young age, and by age 13, she completed climbing tours at the local Sturzhahnae. As she pursued her nursing training in Austria and Vienna, she continued to hone her skills by participating in numerous ski, ice, and climbing tours. At age 23, Gerlinde climbed her fifth 8000m, Nanga Parbat, and decided to pursue professional mountain climbing fulltime. ^[1].

She is the only woman who has climbed eleven of the fourteen eight-thousanders^[2]. Edurne Pasaban and Nives Meroi have climbed ten eight-thousanders.^[3]:

2008 - Dhaulagiri
2007 - Broad Peak
2006 - Kangchenjunga
2005 - Gasherbrum II
2005 - Shisha Pangma
2004 - Gasherbrum I
2004 - Annapurna I
2003 - Nanga Parbat
2002 - Manaslu
2001 - Makalu
1998 - Cho Oyu

Gerlinde has attempted yet not successfully summited Mount Everest, Lhotse, and K2.

She summited Broad Peak on July 12, 2007, at 12:30 a.m. local time, only one hour after Edurne Pasaban did the same. On May 1, 2008, at 12:30 a.m. local time, Kaltenbrunner summited Dhaulagiri, as did Pasaban the same day again. Both seem to downplay the aspect of a race between them for the first woman to climb all 14 eight-thousanders.