Lene Gammelgaard

Lene Gammelgaard (born 18 December 1961) is a Danish mountaineer, author and motivational speaker. Gammelgaard is the 35th woman and the first Scandinavian woman to climb Mount Everest, reaching the peak via the South East Ridge route on 10 May 1996 as part of Scott Fischer's Sagarmatha Environmental Expedition.Her book Climbing High, published by HarperCollins in 1998, recounts the 1996 Everest disaster when a storm took the lives of Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, and six other climbers. The book has sold over 1 million copies worldwide and been translated into 13 languages. Gammelgaard was portrayed in the film Everest (2015) by actress Charlotte Bøving.