Nicolas Bonnet

Nicolas Bonnet ( born November 6, 1984 in Briançon ) is a French ski mountaineer and extreme sports. He is also a mountain guide, racer and coach.

With the ski mountaineering, he began in 1998 and started in 2002 in this sport at its first tournament. Overall, it was six times French champion ski mountaineering in 2006 Junior World Champion in the vertical race, finished in the same year the 1st place in the Junior Pierra Menta and first place in the short distance in the Patrouille des Glaciers. In 2008 he finished in the World Cup ski mountaineering in the relay with Premat, Perrier and Piccot fourth place, and with Premat in the World Cup team standings and in the Pierra Menta each tenth.

In a speed ascent and ski back down he defeated on April 12, 2007, the route from the starting point at 1,500 meters above sea level to the summit ( 3,946 m) and back in 3 hours and 18 minutes, giving it the local speed record in ski mountaineering. Together with the two German Benedikt Böhm and Sebastian Haag he planned the speed ascent and subsequent descent of Manaslu in Nepal .. Despite long waiting for favorable weather conditions at base camp initially turned Bonnet around and Bohm and Hague had the expedition ultimately because of the avalanche danger to adjust..

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