Climbing the seven highest peaks in the Alps is one thing. Anyone who masters the whole thing in less than 12 days and also cycles 1,088 kilometres from mountain to mountain is in a different league. Exceptional athlete and mental coach Wolfgang Fasching has already climbed the highest peaks in the world.
Now he wants to take on the Alps.
12 August, 6 pm sharp: The 7 Summits of the Alpine Countries project begins in Les Houches near Chamonix (France). The first mountain on the programme is none other than Mont Blanc. After a successful ascent and descent, on 14 August they will cycle from Courmayeur to Pont, the starting point for the ascent of the Gran Paradiso (4,061m), the highest mountain in Italy.
The second cycling stage takes Fasching to the 4,634 metre-high Dufourspitze near Zermatt. After a mountain bike descent and a few hours' sleep, Fasching crosses Switzerland and climbs Lichtenstein's Grauspitze (2,599 metres).
Even the Sahara heat can't slow down the three-time RAAM winner. At 37 degrees Celsius, he panted the 180 kilometres from Lichtenstein to Ehrwald, where the Zugspitze awaited him.
He and his team reach the summit at sunset. The next 234-kilometre cycling stage takes him to Austria.
21 August, 5.03 a.m.: Attack on the Grossglockner.
The last of the seven giants awaits in Slovenia and is called Triglav (2,864 metres).
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