Tamara Lunger: A Summiteer

On foot through Mongolia, a winter expedition through Siberia, or climbing K2 without artificial oxygen. You'll probably think of Reinhold Messner. But the über-mountaineer from Villnöß is not the only north Italian whose love of the mountains and passion for extreme experiences has driven him beyond his local peaks and borders. Tamara Lunger, born in Bolzano in 1986, already stood on the summits of two eight-thousanders in her twenties, lived at the limit and found herself in the mountains. Today she describes herself as a "soul mountaineer". Shaped by her love of nature and the mountains, she's also a successful motivational trainer thanks to her experiences at the limit. Behind the thirty-eight-year-old lie experiences and challenges whose intensity is enough to last two lifetimes: magnificent successes, dangerous moments and a tragedy.