the ascent of The Ojos del Salado in Chile began for Anne-Marie Flammersfeld in their own bed. To prepare to the highest volcano in the world (6893 meters above sea level) had set up the Ultra-Trail-runner from St. Moritz altitude training tent and the night carefully to the height acclimatised. To your put, the experience from the Pico de Orizaba in Mexico in the bone.
in 2016, she had fought in the ascent with Nausea, headache, and shortness of breath. “You can hold on so well to the theoretical requirements of high altitude medicine. How the body reacts under real-life conditions, it is difficult to schedule,” recalls the native of Germany. At the end of Flammersfeld has not progressed much yet. “Two steps forward, one step backward,” says the tall Athlete with the blond hair. So Anne-Marie Flammersfeld had a different strategy on how to reach your destination, “Bottom-up, Seven Volcanic Summits” – from the deepest point of the respective country to the summit of the highest volcano in all seven continents with pure muscle power: by foot, by bike, canoe or Ski.
it All began in Ascona
the idea for this Challenge, they came with their Italian Trail-partners Giuseppe Milanesi and Alessio Piccioli, as they biked, 2013, within five days from the lowest point of Switzerland, in Ascona (193 metres) above sea level to the highest, the Dufourspitze (4643 meters above sea level) and ran. The 41-year-old graduate sports scientist like challenges. The self-employed Personal trainer and specialist consultant came only a few years ago, when she moved to St. Moritz, to the extreme sports.
Since 2012, she has been successful at international competitions in Ultra-Trail Running and to Stage competitions. As the first woman in the world, she won the 4 Deserts Race. 1000 kilometres through the most extreme desert landscapes in the world: from the Sahara to the Gobi desert and the Atacama desert to Antarctica. Legitimate Pride comes, if Flammersfeld about it. “I love to set myself new goals.”
Anne-Marie Flammersfeld on Mount Damavand. Photo: All-Mountain Fitness
her latest project is you want to achieve without the Competitive spirit. “It’s about the Experience in the group. In my betting I’m fighting alone. In this project I can share but everything together: the good and the bad moments.” Only the Cycling is not for you just a favorite discipline: “I need to feel solid ground under their feet.”
Technically, the volcanoes are far less difficult to climb than mountains. “But also on Lava and debris, it can be very exhausting.” The biggest challenge of your project and the logistics on the ground. In the run-up to the Team rekognosziert the route on Google Maps, as far as possible. “However, as the condition of roads and Trails, we learn only when we are on the road.” The appeal is also that you will encounter again and again in unexpected problems. The choice-Engadinerin recalls an Episode at the Pico de Orizaba, as a colleague Beppe defendant on a mountain stage, a Defect on the bike hose. “The repair action has cost us half a day’s time, because we could not find the hole in the hose. We were finally led to a mountain village to two children, mending the hole,” she says, laughing.
Lava and debris as a challenge
Because the Trail runner is internationally well connected, you can count on friends. She returns in thought to the year 2014, as the conquest of Mount Damavand decency in Iran. “Friends have organized accommodations, food and Route us on the Trip accompanied.” Glad you had the tips, because the path was littered on the volcano with small craters. But also the sulfur-containing air had made the Trio to create. “You advised us limes to put under the upper lip.”
It is on the one hand, the sporting aspect, the Anne-Marie Flammersfeld of the volcanoes project is irritating. “On the other hand, I get to know the country with different eyes.” In this Form of travel you had to rely heavily on the help of Local. Flammersfeld: “This is very exciting, because you get a small insight into the life of other cultures.” For example, in Tanzania, where the Trio climbed the Kilimanjaro.
2015, the ultra runner Anne-Marie ran-Flammersfeld in 8 hours and 32 minutes on the Kilimanjaro. Video: Duesudue, editing: Tamedia
But sometimes the competitive spirit pushes through. As they conquered the highest mountain in Africa, was you, by the way, a Speed record, by delivery of 1800 up to 5890 feet above the sea in 8.5 hours. This record had been broken again, says the runner and laughs. “It is not my primary goal, any records, to run after, but if it arises, I grab the Chance.”
According to Damavand, mount Kilimanjaro, Pico de Orizaba and Ojos del Salado for 2020, the next volcano: mount Elbrus in Russia, the Anne-Marie and the two colleagues from the Black sea from the best want to own foot for the first 600 kilometers by bike, then to. However, given the current climate debate is also the question of whether such projects are ethically acceptable. There is no doubt: The extreme athlete will find the right way.
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Created: 24.10.2019, 17:39 PM