Zuzana Hofmannová

Zuzana Hofmannová, née Charvátová (15 June 1959 – 31 July 2012, Broad Peak, Pakistan) was a Czech mountaineer, alpinist, and rock climber.

[1][2] Hofmannová first encountered mountain climbing from a television documentary about Nanga Parbat when she was 15.

[4] She first started rock climbing in Labské Údolí, in the Elbe Valley, against her parents' permission.

[10] In 2003 she appeared as herself in Ceské himalájské dobrodruzstvía, a Czech documentary series on the Himalayas.

[11] Over the next years she focused on climbing in the Himalayas, and would become the first Czech woman atop Shishapangma (2004) and Manaslu (2006).