Marianne Schwankhart

Quick Facts

Full Name	Marianne Schwankhart
Occupation	Mountaineer
Date Of Birth	Sep 2, 1976(1976-09-02)
Age	48
Birthplace	Johannesburg
Country	South Africa
Birth City	Gauteng
Horoscope	Virgo

Marianne Schwankhart Biography

Marianne Schwankhart is one of the most popular and richest Mountaineer who was born on September 2, 1976 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa.

Schwankhart was born in Johannesburg. She started her schooling in Plettenberg Bay and matriculated in 1994 in Johannesburg. From there she enrolled in a course of fashion design at the Witwatersrand Technikon, but soon changed to Fine Art. She started climbing in 1996 with the Witwatersrand Technikon Mountain Club, where Alard Hufner and Matthew Murison became her mentors and climbing companions. When they finished their studies in 1998 they set off for Europe. Schwankhart and Hufner worked in the UK for 6 months and then left for the States with Mike Mason and Dermot Brogan. Here they climbed in 9 different states over a period of 5 months including Yosemite, where they started on the “Leaning Tower” and then went on to climb “The Nose” and “The Zodiac” on El Capitan in August 1999 – their first experience of big walls. Schwankhart returned briefly to South Africa at the end of 1999 before returning to the UK to resume work. While there she explored climbing areas in England, France and Spain. Her interest in photography grew to the extent that she decided to study photography in South Africa, joined the National college of Photography in 2001 and finished her diploma by the end of that year.

In 2002 she worked briefly at the Sowetan newspaper before joining the Sunday Times. At the end of 2003, she, Alard Hufner, Mark Seuring, Mike Mason, Dermot Brogan and Voytek Modrevski set out to do a second ascent of the Torres del Paine route, which the South African team led by Paul Fatti had climbed 30 years earlier and had never been repeated. She became the first woman to ever climb the east face of the central tower. In early 2005 she returned to Patagonia and climbed the “Compressor Route” on Cerro Torre with Douard le Roux. In August of the same year she climbed the Nameless Tower in Pakistan with Peter Lazarus, James Pitman and Andreas Kiefer. June 2006 saw her embarking on her first adventure documentary film with James Pitman and microlight pilot Mike Blyth. They set out to climb the 3 biggest faces in Southern Africa, with all approaches via microlight. It took 2 weeks to cover more than 5 000 km and 3 big walls being Blouberg, Spitzkoppe, and “Oceans of Fear”, a route on the Klein Winterhoek Mountains of the Western Cape. Their movie was shown at the Banff Mountain Film Festival in 2007.

Marianne Schwankhart Net Worth

Marianne Schwankhart is one of the richest Mountaineer from South Africa. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Marianne Schwankhart 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Marianne Schwankhart (born 2 September 1976) is a South African rock climber, specialising in big walls. In 2004 she became the first woman to scale the East face of the Central Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia. In February 2005 she climbed the “Compressor” route on Cerro Torre. On 21 August 2005 Schwankhart, in the company of Peter Lazarus, James Pitman and Andreas Kiefer reached the top of Trango Tower in Pakistan, becoming the third woman to step on the summit.

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Jamal Ranked on the list of most popular Mountaineer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in South Africa. Marianne Schwankhart celebrates birthday on September 2 of every year.