Graubünden 3000 - Emil Inauen, first human climbed all 460 peaks over 3000 meter in Graubünds (Swiss Alps).

2002-02-27 00:01:00 - More than 400 peaks Inauen did since he start the project Graubünden 3000 in 2002. With his powerful effort he got closer and closer to be the first human climbed all 460 peaks higher than 3000 meter in Graubünden, Switzerland.

During the International Year of the Mountain (UNO) 2002 Emil Inauen did show tremendous effort when he start to climb all 460 Mountains higher than 3000 meter altitude in the Kanton Graubünden. The project initiator Inauen named his climbing record 'Graubünden 3000' witch he climbed together with his partner Walter von Ballmoos.

In 96 days the climbing professionals reached a unbelievable number of more 473?000 altitude meters by reaching 230 alpine peaks over 3000 meter. During the worst summer weather in the last 26 years the unbreakable will to go pushed the duo true snow storms, avalanche dangerous, weeks of fog and rain to an accident in a rock fall at the difficult Piz Linard.

Inauen was stopped hardly from climbing for several weeks. After heavy injuries the professional did a powerful come back at Piz Kesch by climbing in deep winter conditions together with his partner and photographer Robert Bösch before defiantly the winter closed all chances to reach all 460 peaks.

In the last 3 years after the project was finished Emil Inauen continues his personal goal and climbed more than 100 peaks solo. As he said in the German news paper ?Süddeutsche Zeitung?; it wasn?t a media spectacular or a sponsor show at all. At the very first for me it is a dream and my passion to climb and after I will finish all 460 peaks in my home country there will be new dreams.

Few weeks later Inauens dream got realised with a climb up to the Piz Ela together with his wife Barbara. On the top of this home peak close to Davos he finished the record in 2006 as the first human reaching all 460 peaks in Graubünden with hundred thousands of altitude meters ? Hardly a live time of mountaineering the 34 years old adventurer did in 4 years climbing.