Stefan Glowacz

Stefan Glowacz is a German rock climber and adventurer who took up the sport at 12 and became one of the world's strongest competition and sport climbers. Born in 1965, he won Sportroccia in 1985, the Rock Master in 1987, 1988 and 1992, and the demonstration climbing challenge at the Albertville Olympics, and was vice world champion in 1993. Since 1993 he has pursued expeditions to remote parts of Canada, Patagonia and Antarctica, and in 1994 he freed Des Kaisers neue Kleider in the Kaiser Mountains, among the hardest big wall routes anywhere. He made first ascents in Antarctica and Greenland and in 2001 became the first person to finish the Alpine Trilogy of the Alps' hardest multi-pitch big wall routes. A route on the north wall of Cerro Murallón in Patagonia brought a Piolet d'Or nomination in 2006. He appeared in Werner Herzog's Scream of Stone (1991) and wrote several climbing books.