“Über allem der Berg”

Alpine Documentation (), Annette Mäser 25 min

A very personal portrait of the Salzburg mountain climber Helma Schimke. The successful architect and mother of three children was one of the world’s best climbers. The 79-year-old Helma Schimke first started to climb mountains when she was a little girl. “I want to become a mountain climber” she wrote a very early entry in her diary. She is a naturally talented alpinist whose capabilities and passionate connection to mountains seemed to have no limits. Her diary of mountain trips records hundreds of tours among which there are numerous “ladies’ first ascents”. In 1961, her husband, Dr. Konrad Schimke, a judge in Salzburg, died on the Watzmann Mountain. All of a sudden she was a single parent to three children. Even in her deepest misfortune, she never grew apart from her mountains.