Liv Sansoz

Liv Sansoz is a French professional rock climber, ice climber and base jumper, born on 12 February 1977 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice, where she grew up in the Alps and first discovered climbing. Her parents built her a climbing wall, and by the age of sixteen she was a member of the French national team. She became twice World Champion and three times World Cup winner in lead climbing. A ten-metre fall that cracked a vertebra in her neck cost her a year of confidence and ended her competitive career, but she regained it and turned to a very different project: in 2017 she set out to climb every Alpine summit over 4,000 metres in a year, and by July she had climbed 48 peaks, combining the descents with skiing and paragliding when she could.