Marianne Schwankhart

Marianne Schwankhart (born 2 September 1976) is a South African rock climber, specialising in big walls.

In 2004 she became the first woman to scale the East face of the Central Torres del Paine in Chilean Patagonia.

On 21 August 2005 Schwankhart, with Peter Lazarus, James Pitman and Andreas Kiefer, ascended Trango Tower in Pakistan.

[1] In 2007, she joined Pierre Carter, as project photographer, in his bid to paraglide off the summit of the highest mountain on each continent.

Schwankhart and Carter flew in tandem in order for her to capture the full experience on film.