Rolf Majcen

Rolf Majcen (born 1966) is a Lower Austrian economist-lawyer, writer and extreme sports athlete.

While serving in the Bundesheer he completed air rescuer and army mountain guide assistant training.

His first book Sieg in den Bergen (victory in the mountains), published in 2002, was awarded by the Union Internationale des Associations d'Alpinisme (UIAA).

[2] He was the first Austrian, who competed in all the three classical ski mountaineering events, the Patrouille des Glaciers (2000 and 2004), the Pierra Menta (2001) and the Trofeo Mezzalama (2003).

In 2004, Majcen and Hermann Kofler were the first Austrian athletes who gained World Cup points in ski mountaineering for their country.