Benedikt "Bene" Böhm is a German extreme ski mountaineer

Ski mountaineering

Ski mountaineering is form of ski touring that variously combines the sports of Telemark, Alpine, and backcountry skiing with that of mountaineering...

 and extreme skier

Extreme skiing

Extreme skiing is skiing performed on long, steep slopes in dangerous terrain. The sport is performed off-piste.The French coined the term 'Le Ski Extreme' in the 1970s...

. Together with Sebastian Haag

Sebastian Haag

Sebastian Haag is a German extreme ski mountaineer and extreme skier. Together with Benedikt Böhm he keeps the records in speed ski mountaineering at the Muztagata and the Gasherbrum II.Haag is member of the Dynafit Gore-Tex team...

 he keeps the records in speed ski mountaineering at the Muztagata and the Gasherbrum II

Gasherbrum II

Gasherbrum II , also known as K4, is the 13th highest mountain on Earth, located on the border of Gilgit-Baltistan province, Pakistan and Xinjiang, China...

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Böhm has grown up with five siblings in Harlaching, a borough of Munich. One of his brothers is the German artist Corbinian Böhm

Corbinian Böhm

Corbinian Böhm is a German painter, installation artist and sculptor.-Biography:Böhm has grown up with five siblings in Harlaching, a borough of Munich. One of his brothers is the ski mountaineer Benedikt Böhm. After finishing his secondary education with the abitur he studied art history at the...

. Böhm is member of the national German Skimountaineering Team and member of the Dynafit Gore-Tex

Gore-Tex

Gore-Tex is a waterproof/breathable fabric, and a registered trademark of W. L. Gore and Associates. It was co-invented by Wilbert L. Gore, Rowena Taylor, and Gore's son, Robert W. Gore. Robert Gore was granted on April 27, 1976, for a porous form of polytetrafluoroethylene with a...

 team. He also works at Dynafit as an international sales manager.

Selected results

• 2004:
  • 5th, German Championship
• 2005:
  • 5th, German Championship
  • speed record in high altitude mountaineering with downhill skiing at the Muztagata together with Sebastian Haag under the leadership of Matthias Robl, 23 August 2005
• 2006:
  • speed record in high altitude mountaineering with downhill skiing at the Gasherbrum II together with Sebastian Haag under the leadership of Luis Stitzinger, 3 August 2006

Patrouille des Glaciers

Patrouille des Glaciers

The Patrouille des Glaciers is a ski mountaineering race organized every two years by the Swiss Army, in which military and civilian teams compete...

 

• 2008: 2nd ("seniors I" ranking), together with Georg Nickaes
  Georg Nickaes
  Georg "Schorsch" Nickaes is a German ski mountaineer and speaker of the German ski mountaineering team.Nickaes was born in Bad Reichenhall. He enjoys also mountain running and ice climbing, and finished the army mountain guide training in 1994. He started in international ski mountaineering races...
  
   and Gerhard Reithmeier
  Gerhard Reithmeier
  Gerhard Reithmeier from Bergen is a German ski mountaineer.-Selected results:* 2001:** German record time, Trofeo Mezzalama * 2004:** 4th, German Championship...
  
  
• 2010: 2nd ("seniors II" ranking), together with Javier Martín de Villa
  Javier Martín de Villa
  Javier Martín de Villa is a Spanish ski mountaineer.Martín was born in Madrid. He started ski mountaineering in 1998, competed first in the Trofeo Altos Pirineos race and became member of the national team in the same year...
  
   and Pete Swenson
  Pete Swenson
  Pete Swenson from Breckenridge, Colorado, is an American ski mountaineer and Competition Director of the United States Ski Mountaineering Association ....
  
  

External links

• Benedikt Böhm at skimountaineering.org
• Stefan Winter
  Stefan Winter
  Stefan Winter is a German ski mountaineer, former coach of the German ski mountaineering team and alpine sports author.Winter is teacher of sports and German and a DAV mountain guide...
  
  : Germans summit G2 and then ski down: great pictures!