Lene Gammelgaard

Quick Facts

Full Name	Lene Gammelgaard
Occupation	Author
Date Of Birth	Dec 18, 1961(1961-12-18)
Age	63
Birthplace	Copenhagen
Country	Denmark
Birth City	Capital Region of Denmark
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Lene Gammelgaard Biography

Lene Gammelgaard is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on December 18, 1961 in Copenhagen, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark.

Lene Gammelgaard (born 18 December 1961) is a Danish author, motivational speaker and mountaineer. She is based in Denmark but has traveled and worked in over 15 countries in pursuit of her speaking career.

At the age of 20, after finishing college, she sailed the Caribbean working as a deck hand and later crossed the Atlantic on a yacht via the Azores. In 1982, she attended the University of Copenhagen where she achieved a law degree specializing in tax and company law. She worked full-time and studied at night as a finance analyst at Erik Møller’s Efterfolgere which was the largest stock brokers company in Denmark at that time. In 1988 she took a break and sailed from Zealand to Gibraltar as a co-navigator on a Nautical 42 for a 3-month trip. Later that year she worked as a purchasing manager in charge of negotiations, legal and transport issues dealing with Hong-Kong, Singapore and Thailand in Pinetta Textile Company. She was also the project leader and activist at Greenpeace.

Lene Gammelgaard Net Worth

Lene Gammelgaard is one of the richest Author from Denmark. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Lene Gammelgaard 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Climbing High is an account of Gammelgaard’s experiences and memories while climbing Mount Everest. On this expedition, she became the 35th woman and first Scandinavian woman to reach the peak of Mount Everest. She writes about how she was inspired to take on this adventure by Scott Fischer, and how she mentally prepared for the climb as part of the Sargarmantha Environmental Expedition. She writes of how she planned to climb without supplementary oxygen partly as a kick start to open the European market to Mountain Madness, Scott Fischer’s mountain guiding operation, with her as the company’s representative.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Lene Gammelgaard height 5′ 11″ Leonardo weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Who is Lene Gammelgaard Dating?

According to our records, Lene Gammelgaard married to Søren Smidt. As of December 1, 2023, Lene Gammelgaard’s is not dating anyone.

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Her book Climbing High, printed in 1998 and published by HarperCollins, was about the 1996 Everest disaster, a storm that took the lives of Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, and six other climbers. The book has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and has been translated into 13 languages. She was portrayed in the film Everest (2015) by actress Charlotte Bøving. Lene Gammelgaard was the 35th woman and the first Scandinavian woman to climb Mount Everest, reaching the peak via the South East Ridge route. She accomplished this feat on 10 May 1996 as part of Scott Fischer’s Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition. This is one of the most remembered expeditions in the history of Mt Everest.

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Leonardo Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Denmark. Lene Gammelgaard celebrates birthday on December 18 of every year.

She was an expedition leader and organizer of Upper Mustang, Nepal trek. She went on a sailing trip to the Goeteborg Skargaard and British Virgin Islands. In April 2005 she went on a trekking trip to the Atlas Mountains, Morocco and a horse trek in Utah and Arizona with Equestrian Tours. In 2006 she was the captain of her off-shore sailing yacht Van de Stadt 34 from Amsterdam to Copenhagen through the North Sea. She lived for 14 months in Nepal when her mission to adopt her daughter was disrupted by the peace process and UNICEF. She shared her experiences of being victimized by the international adoption and humanitarian process in her book Mitlivskamp “The struggle of my life”. She says “Everest and “fighting for my daughter” has taught me the importance of determination and never giving up. Quitting is not in my vocabulary”.