Climber

Angelika Rainer, born and raised in Merano, is a three-times world champion and twice world championship runner-up in ice climbing. Already as a child, she is out and about hiking in the South Tyrolean mountains with her mother. At the age of twelve, thanks to the opening of the Merano climbing gym, she is given the chance to try climbing and is exhilarated right away. From now on she applies herself to the sport with all her heart. With the first victory in an ice climbing world cup competition in Saas Fee, in 2008, she fulfils a childhood dream. At the same time, this is the breakthrough in her international climbing career. In 2012, she is able to win the overall world cup competition for the first time and repeats this success in 2015. In the wintertime, however, Angelika is engaged not only in competitions, but also over recent years has completed numerous repeats of the most difficult ice, mixed and dry-tooling routes around the world. In November 2017, with the climbing of A line above the sky, she becomes the first woman in the world conquering a dry-tooling route rated D15. On rock, Angelika climbs routes up to difficulty level 8c. With the first female redpoint climb of the multi-pitch route via Italia 61 on Piz Ciavaces in the Sella region she also makes a worthy debut in alpine climbing. Her great passion is travelling, which she combines with climbing routes in the most various climbing areas all over the world. Apart from climbing, Angelika remains in close touch with nature also in her professional training. In the autumn of 2008, she completes her bachelor studies in agricultural economics in Bolzano and subsequently works for several years at the agricultural research centre Laimburg, until finally deciding to exclusively devote herself to climbing.