Ines Papert

Ines Papert, born on 5 April 1974, is a German alpine climber and a world champion ice and mixed climber, best known for her competition ice climbing awards and difficult alpine ascents. She grew up in Bad Düben in Saxony, trained as a physiotherapist and moved to Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps in 1993, where she discovered mountaineering. She won the overall Ice Climbing World Cup in 2006, won the world cup three more times over the years and has won more than 20 World Cup ice climbing events. She made a number of first free ascents, was the first woman to climb the mixed grade M11, and made the first ascent of Likhu Chuli I in Nepal in 2013, which she climbed solo. Her book Vertical: Life on the Steepest Faces was published in 2012.