Tormod Granheim
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Tormod Granheim
Tormod Granheim (born September 17. 1974 in Trondheim
, Norway
is a Norwegian adventurer and motivational speaker involved in expeditions and extreme skiing
. On May 16, 2006 he made the first ski descent of Mount Everest
North Face by the Norton Couloir.
The accident led the team to arrange the first helicopter rescue on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest.
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, captained by German scientist Dominique Görlitz. The mission was to prove inter-continental sea-journeys were possible with technology available even before the ice-age. He and his crew were rescued on August 25 after the stern of their boat was damaged.
Tormod Granheim (born September 17. 1974 in Trondheim
Trondheim
Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...
, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
is a Norwegian adventurer and motivational speaker involved in expeditions and extreme skiing
Extreme skiing
Extreme skiing is skiing performed on long, steep slopes in dangerous terrain. The sport is performed off-piste.The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s...
. On May 16, 2006 he made the first ski descent of Mount Everest
Mount 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...
North Face by the Norton Couloir.
Skiing Mount Everest
Tormod Granheim, his Swedish partner Tomas Olsson and photographer Fredrik Schenholm approached Everest from the Tibetan side in Spring 2006. Granheim climbed the mountain from Advanced Base Camp (6400 meters above sea level) to the summit (8850 m) in a continuous 24 hour effort, meeting Olsson en route, who spent two days covering the same ground. The route they followed, known as the Mallory route normally takes climbers five days to complete. The pair then skied into the North Face by the Norton Couloir, a 55 degree steep and nearly 3000 meter high mountain face. Near the top Olsson’s ski broke, adding extra tension to the already complex task. A cliff intersecting the couloir forced the two to make an abseil, as the anchor pulled Olsson fell an estimated 1700 meters to his death. Granheim skied alone to the North Col.The accident led the team to arrange the first helicopter rescue on the Tibetan side of Mount Everest.
North-Atlantic reed boat crossing
On July 11, 2007 Tormod Granheim set out from New York City on the reed boatReed boat
Reed boats and rafts, along with dugout canoes and other rafts, are among the oldest known types of boats. Often used as traditional fishing boats, they are still used in a few places around the world, though they have generally been replaced with planked boats. Reed boats can be distinguished from...
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Abora
Abora is the name of an ancestal solar deity of La Palma and a traditional god of the Azore Islands, and of two reed boats.-Abora, reed boat:...
, captained by German scientist Dominique Görlitz. The mission was to prove inter-continental sea-journeys were possible with technology available even before the ice-age. He and his crew were rescued on August 25 after the stern of their boat was damaged.