Annelie Pompe
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Annelie Pompe is an adventurer and athlete from Mölndal
, Sweden
, working as a writer, photographer (mainly underwater), personal trainer as well as a motivational speaker.
world championships. On 5 October 2010 she broke the world record in Variable weights freediving with a dive down to 126 metres.
as the first Swedish woman to summit from the north side. She has been active in other sports, winning a Swedish gold medal in fitness as well as competing in adventure racing, cross country mountainbiking and running.
In mountaineering she was also observed for her mistakenly false claim to summit Shisha Pangma in September 2009. Some mountaineers noticed inaccuracies in Pompe's initial report, which was reported second hand by her friend who ran her blog and had bad connection via satellite telephone. The blog mistakenly said they reached the "summit", while they actually reached "the north summit", some 24 meters lower than the main summit.
Mölndal
Mölndal is a part of the Gothenburg urban area on the west-coast of Sweden, and constitutes the administrative centre of Mölndal Municipality. About 40,000 of the municipality's 60,000 inhabitants live here.-Geography:...
, Sweden
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....
, working as a writer, photographer (mainly underwater), personal trainer as well as a motivational speaker.
Freediving
Pompe is known for her achievements in competitive freediving, claiming one individual silver medal and one team silver medal in AIDAAIDA International
The International Association for Development of Apnea is the world wide rule- and record-keeping body for competitive breath holding events . It aims to set standards for safety, comparability of Official World Record attempts and freedive education...
world championships. On 5 October 2010 she broke the world record in Variable weights freediving with a dive down to 126 metres.
Mountaineering
She is also a mountaineer and in May 2011 she climbed Mount EverestMount Everest
Mount Everest is the world's highest mountain, with a peak at above sea level. It is located in the Mahalangur section of the Himalayas. The international boundary runs across the precise summit point...
as the first Swedish woman to summit from the north side. She has been active in other sports, winning a Swedish gold medal in fitness as well as competing in adventure racing, cross country mountainbiking and running.
In mountaineering she was also observed for her mistakenly false claim to summit Shisha Pangma in September 2009. Some mountaineers noticed inaccuracies in Pompe's initial report, which was reported second hand by her friend who ran her blog and had bad connection via satellite telephone. The blog mistakenly said they reached the "summit", while they actually reached "the north summit", some 24 meters lower than the main summit.
External links
- Annelie Pompe's personal website
- Underwater photographs by Annelie Pompe