Andreas Steindl | |
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Born | Zermatt, Switzerland | 8 April 1989
Andreas Steindl (born 8 April 1989) is a Swiss mountain climber, ski mountaineer and mountain guide.
Steindl was born in Zermatt, where he worked as a carpenter before he earned his mountain guide diploma in 2011.[1] He also competes in alpine skiing and mountain running events.[2][3]
On 23 August 2011 he climbed the Matterhorn in a record time of 2 hours 57 minutes,[4] and beat the record of Simon Anthamatten, Ernest Farquet, Marcel Marti and Florent Troillet from 2007.[5] The team of 2007 mounted the Matterhorn in a time of 3 hours 45 minutes.[6] In 2018, he ran from Kirchplatz in Zermatt to the summit of the Matterhorn and back in 3:59:52 improving on his own previous record by 20 minutes.[7]