Stefan Glowacz

Stefan Glowacz is a German professional rock climber and adventurer, born on 22 March 1965 in Tittmoning, Bavaria. He began climbing at the age of 12 and within a few years had become one of the strongest competition and sport climbers in the world, with wins at the Rock Master festival in Arco in 1987, 1988 and 1992, and a world championship runner-up place in 1993. He also won the demonstration climbing challenge held alongside the 1992 Winter Olympics in Albertville. From 1993 he turned to natural challenges and expeditions in Canada, Patagonia, Greenland and Antarctica, making first ascents of big walls, and in 1994 he freed the route Des Kaisers neue Kleider in the Kaiser Mountains. In 2001 he became the first person to complete the Alpine Trilogy of hard multi-pitch routes, and in 2006 he was nominated for the Piolet d'Or for a route on Cerro Murallon in Patagonia.