Christoph Hainz

Christoph Hainz is an Italian climber, mountaineering allrounder, professional mountain guide and author from the German-speaking province of South Tyrol, born on 23 July 1962 in Muhlbach. He took up climbing at the age of twenty after training as a car mechanic and qualified as a mountain guide in 1990. He has made more than 2000 mountain tours and opened about forty first ascents in the Dolomites alone, and his achievements include the first ascent of the Shivling North Pillar in India in 1993 with Hans Kammerlander and a solo climb of the Superdirettissima on the north face of the Grosse Zinne in eight hours in 1997. In 2007 he opened the route Magic Mushroom on the Eiger north face with Roger Schaeli, and he is nicknamed the Zinnenmann.