Franziska
Schönbächler

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Born in
1997
Mammut athlete since
2022
At home in
Bern, Switzerland

"It
is
a
privilege
to
choose
your
own
way
of
suffering."

12 questions to Franziska

Advice you’d give your younger self

Interpret less, communicate more.

Something on your bucket list

Boil a Bialetti coffee on a portalege.

Your favorite mountain

Piz Badile, Switzerland

Your favorite mountain snack

Dinosaur jelly babies.

Your hidden talent

Split an apple into two halves.

What you wanted to be when you grew up

A singer.

A moment you’ll never forget

When Will Gadd congratulated me in amazement after a competition and said that when he saw me climbing, he saw all my passion in the movement, I could still go very far.

What you love most about mountaineering

The versatility of the disciplines with the most beautiful stage for the most interesting challenges. It grounds us humans and gives us room for personal development.

Something you learned from sports

Gratitude and humility towards the world.

Your top tip for other mountaineers

Rumpf isch trumpf (Hull is trump).

Something you’d like to learn

Crawl swim, eskimo roll with the kayak.

Your message to the outdoor community

We all have exactly the same right to be in the mountains, regardless of level, so please just be nice and of good will towards each other.

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