Photo Gallery Chasing Records in the Sky
After lying about a summit he didn't actually make, Austrian "skyrunner" Christian Stangl now wants to be the first person to scale the three highest mountains on each continent. But even if he sets the record, will he ever be able to clear his own?
Christian Stangl, a 46-year-old Austrian, is a star in the world of an extreme form of mountain climbing called skyrunning, which is basically sprinting up the highest mountains. He is currently on his "Triple Seven Summits" mission to be the first person to stand atop the three highest mountains on all seven continents. He only has one summit left, the Shkhara, in northern Georgia, which he hopes to summit by the end of April.
Foto: epa apa Stangl/ picture-alliance/ dpa
Stagl is now on a quest for redemption. In 2010, he admitted to lying about having reached the top of K2. Since then, he has campaigned as an apostle of fairness and clean competition in extreme mountain climbing, a sport whose participants are both players and referees at the same time.
Foto: epa Ho/ picture alliance / dpa
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