Media
Videos
WIN Conference Rome - Only the Sky Above
Adidas - The Power of Integration
MARC CAIN - up close and personal
Markus Lanz - Late Night Talk Show
Hard to Believe - Celebrity Guest Helga Hengge
Markus Lanz - Late Night Talk Show
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Press
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AGEIST - Gentle Resilience in the Face of Uncertainty
At 30 years old, to combat stress, Helga Hengge started climbing at the gym. Two years later, she climbed to the summit of Mount Everest. For the past 20 years, mountaineering has fueled her, providing a mental challenge to match the physical, and inspiring a mindset for overcoming life’s challenges. Today, it is fair to say we face a collective Everest…
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Adventure Sports
She was the second but then again, she was also the first. Helga Hengge summited Mount Everest on May 27th of 1999. As the second German woman after Hannelore Schmatz. But Helga survived the descent and Hannelore did not, she died from exhaustion at 8300 meters on the south side of the mountain in 1979.
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Marc Cain - Up Close and Personal
Helga Hengge is the first German woman to have successfully conquered Mount Everest, that is, the ascent as well as the descent. She is also the first German woman to have been on all “Seven Summits“, the highest summit on every continent. She originally began climbing and mountaineering in 1996 when she was looking to strike a balance to her hectic job as a fashion journalist in New York.
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Dreamers & Doers - Respect
It is the simplicity of mountaineering that I love, the straightforwardness of walking, of taking one step at a time, the purity of it. The thin air has the curious effect of slowing down the body and the mind, and the simple task of walking suddenly requires an effort of immense concentration. The mountains exude an overwhelming sense of peace, of belonging.
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Eurofighter News
Helga Hengge’s profile reads like the plot for a Hollywood blockbuster. A former fashion editor for Vogue, she discovered a love for climbing after attending a class on a climbing wall at her local gym. In the 20 years since, she’s become the first German woman to successfully climb Everest and scale the Seven Summits - the highest peak on each of the continents.
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VOGUE - Business Vogue
Das Abenteuer, groß zu denken.
Vom Mount Everest in die Führungsetagen: Die Bergsteigerin Helga Hengge coacht
Manager und plant für Mai ihren nächsten Coup in Alaska -
VOGUE - Dem Himmel so nah
Die Stadt der Superlative - bester Background für persönliche Höchstleistungen: Der in New York lebenden Stylistin Helga Hengge ist als erster Deutscher gelungen, den Mount Everest zu bezwingen. In Vogue zeigt sie ihr Fitnessprogramm.
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Sports & Fitness - Reaching her peak
New York Fashion Stylist Helga Hengge isn’t your classic mountain woman. So when she decided to climb Mount Everest, no one expected her to make the history books.
Finally, after six weeks of waiting, of hiking up and down between 17,000 and 26,000 feet to help our bodies acclimatize to the altitude, the day of our summit bid had arrived. The weather forecasted for May 27th, 1999, was clear skies — a long-anticipated window between storms.
Podcasts
Podcast Unfolding Maps - Over Seven Summits Around the World
Mount Everest in the Himalayas, Mt Vinson in Antarctica – only two of the highest mountains on each of the seven continents. The former VOGUE fashion editor and today’s extreme mountaineer Helga Hengge was the first German woman ever to successfully climb them all. She has experienced challenges that could not be more diverse, from the deep silence of Antarctica to the Stone Age of Papua, through rainforest and enormous snowstorms, up to the airy heights of steep summit ridges. In this episode of Unfolding Maps she talks about some of these adventures.