Georg "Schorsch" Nickaes (born June 12, 1971) is a German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 ski mountaineer and speaker of the German ski mountaineering team.

Nickaes was born in Bad Reichenhall

Bad Reichenhall

Bad Reichenhall is a spa town, and administrative center of the Berchtesgadener Land district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. It is located near Salzburg in a basin encircled by the Chiemgauer Alps ....

. He enjoys also mountain running and ice climbing

Ice climbing

Ice climbing, as the term indicates, is the activity of ascending inclined ice formations. Usually, ice climbing refers to roped and protected climbing of features such as icefalls, frozen waterfalls, and cliffs and rock slabs covered with ice refrozen from flows of water. For the purposes of...

, and finished the army mountain guide training in 1994. He started in international ski mountaineering races after 1999. He was buried with two companions by a snow slab during a three-day ski mountaineering a few years ago, but they freed themselves. Nickaes is married with one child.

Selected results

• 1999:
  • German record time, "DIAMIR-Race"
• 2001:
  • German record time, Trofeo Mezzalama (together with 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...
    
     and Matthias Robl)
  • 2nd, Mountain Attack
    Mountain Attack
    The "Mountain Attack" is an annual Austrian ski mountaineering competition, carried out near Saalbach since 1999.The competition is separated in a short distance and a long distance course, each offered for a female and a male racer class. There is a separat ranking of racers, older than 45 years...
    
     race
• 2002:
  • 3rd, "International Open", Saalbach
• 2004:
  • 3rd, German Championship single
  • 7th, Mountain Attack race
• 2005:
  • 5th, German Championship single
  • 3rd, European Championship relay race (together with Franz Graßl
    Franz Graßl
    Franz Graßl is a German ski mountaineer.Graßl was born in Berchtesgaden. He is member of the Deutscher Alpenverein -Berchtesgaden section and the Bergwacht. He was member of the German skimountaineering team until the end of 2006. He is married to the ski mountaineer Judith Graßl with two children...
    
    , Stefan Klinger
    Stefan Klinger
    Stefan Klinger is a German ski mountaineer.Klinger was born in Anger. He inspired his girl friend Stefanie Koch to compete also in the national ski mountaineering team.- Selected results :* 2003:** 1st, Predigtstuhl race* 2004:...
    
     and Toni Steurer
    Toni Steurer
    Anton "Toni" Steurer is a German extreme sports athlete.Steurer was born in Oberstdorf. He climbed the Eiger Nordwand in the age of seventeen and belongs to the youngest Nordwand climbers. He is deployed as a medical service soldier and army mountain guide in Kempten. He is member of the DAV...
    
    )
• 2006:
  • 5th, World Championship
    2006 World Championship of Skimountaineering
    The 2006 World Championship of Ski Mountaineering was the third World Championship of Ski Mountaineering sanctioned by the International Council for Ski Mountaineering Competitions , held in the Italian Province of Cuneo from February 27 to March 4, 2006....
    
     relay race (together with Toni Steurer, Franz Graßl and Martin Echtler
    Martin Echtler
    Martin Echtler is a German ski mountaineer. He also competes in mountain running.Echtler was born in Peiting. His sister Christine is also member of the German skimountaineering team.- Ski mountaineering :* 2003:...
    
    )

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...

 

• 2006: 7th ("seniors II" ranking), together with Wolfgang Palzer and Tim Stachel
• 2008: 2nd ("seniors I" ranking), together with Gerhard Reithmeier and Benedikt Böhm
  Benedikt Böhm
  Benedikt "Bene" Böhm is a German extreme ski mountaineer and extreme skier. Together with Sebastian Haag he keeps the records in speed ski mountaineering at the Muztagata and the Gasherbrum II....
  
  

External links

• Georg Nickaes at skimountaineering.com