Marianne Schwankhart mountain on each continent. Schwankhart and Carter flew in tandem in order for her to capture the full experience on film. In July 2010 they flew off Mount Elbrus in Russia, the highest mountain in Europe. In December of the same year they summitted Aconcagua in Argentina, the highest mountain in South America, but could not fly from the summit due to gale-force winds. In September 2011, they successfully flew off the summit of Kilimanjaro. At the same time, she joined the 'Sunday Times Travel Weekly' as a full-time adventure photographer with journalist, Claire Keeton. Together they travel the subcontinent
Christian Stangl time, he set new records for climbing Aconcagua, Elbrus, Mount Vinson and Carstensz Pyramid. The film "The Skyrunner" (2007) deals with Stangl’s 49-minute record ascent of the Carstensz Pyramid. As a continuation of the Seven Summits speed-project Stangl pursued the goal of skyrunning up the second highest peaks of each continent, the so-called Seven Second Summits, with the vision of being the first peson to complete the Seven Summits as well as the Seven Second Summits. In 2008, Stangl undertook his first expedition to K2, the second highest mountain of Asia (8611m). After the death of 11 mountaineers in an