Annelie Pompe

Annelie Pompe, born in 1981, is an adventurer and athlete from Gothenburg, Sweden, who competes in freediving and climbs mountains. Raised close to the sea, she took up freediving after gaining a scuba certification, and on 5 October 2010 she broke the world record in variable weight freediving with a dive to 126 metres. She won one individual and one team silver medal at the AIDA world championships and holds the Swedish record of 72 metres in constant weight without fins. In May 2011 she became the first Swedish woman to summit Mount Everest from the north side, though she used bottled oxygen despite marketing the climb as oxygen free, and by January 2016 she had climbed all of the Seven Summits, finishing with Mount Vinson. She also works as a helicopter pilot, speaker and writer.