Billi Bierling - Keeping track of all great climbs in the Himalayas.

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Meeting Explorers

Fredrik Sträng

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-The people behind the achievements- In this podcast, we go to the moon, to the Challenger Deep, and everything in between. Meeting Explorers interviews contemporary adventurers who have ventured into the unknown and pushed the boundaries of what is possible. This is a deeply connected portrait of the people behind the most extraordinary accomplishments and an encounter with their everyday life.

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Billi Bierling - Keeping track of all great climbs in the Himalayas.

Meeting Explorers

1 hour 48 minutes 51 seconds

4 years ago

Billi Bierling - Keeping track of all great climbs in the Himalayas.

A person who had no real ambition as an adolescent became a distinguished Himalayan historian, keeping track of all the ambitions climbs in the Himalayan Database.

Billi became the third German woman to successfully climb Mount Everest on May 21, 2009, and has reached six of 14 of the highest peaks in the world. Billi knows the Himalayas better than anyone and is considered the authority on mountaineering in this region by The Outdoor Journal.

In this interview we talk about her crossroads in life, exploratory climbs in the Himalayas, sacred mountains, how much circus there really is at Everest, how the future of mountaineering in the Himalayas.