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Keynote SpeakerGéraldine Fasnacht

Professional freerider, iconic basejumper and wingsuit pilot

Inspired by nature and always ready to discover new horizons, Géraldine Fasnacht is a freeride champion who also practices base jumping and wingsuit flying. She is a specialist in risk management, high performance, and self-improvement. Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Fasnacht  started skiing and snowboarding at a young age. At 21,... Read more

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  • High performance
  • Risk management
  • Fulfilling your dreams
  • Surpassing yourself
  • Purpose-driven mindset
  • Team dynamics

Biography

Inspired by nature and always ready to discover new horizons, Géraldine Fasnacht is a freeride champion who also practices base jumping and wingsuit flying. She is a specialist in risk management, high performance, and self-improvement.

Born in Lausanne, Switzerland, Fasnacht  started skiing and snowboarding at a young age. At 21, she won the X-Treme competition in Verbier, known as the world’s toughest freeride competition. This marked the beginning of her freerider career, during which she has obtained 11 international victories and 23 further podiums around the globe.

But freeriding isn’t her only passion. After 300 parachute jumps, she started base jumping before falling in love with wingsuits. In 2009, Fasnacht organised an expedition, along with three other adventurers, to complete the first wingsuit flight over the Earth’s southernmost continent. In 2014, she became the first person to jump from the Matterhorn, the famous alpine summit at 4,478 meters above sea level, in a wingsuit.  In 2016, she completed the first wingsuit flight from the highest Swiss summit, Mount Rose (4634m).

Nicknamed “the bird-woman”, Fasnacht is a true lover of adventure and nature: “My drug is the mountain,” she says. “Whether flying in the air or on the snow, I need to be in a pure universe and in contact with the elements.”

Today, Géraldine Fasnacht divides her time between various projects including her coaching activities (supporting young people through Mountain Line Foundation, the association she founded to foster budding athletes who practices skiing, snowboarding freeride or mountain biking), and her keynote speaking work.

She has been named “Adventurer of the Year” in 2021 by Paris Match.

Achievements:

2016

2015

    2014

    • Opening of the first wingsuit flight – Summit of the Matterhorn, (4478m) iconic mountain of Switzerland (7th June)
    • Opening of the first wingsuit flight to Italy from the summit of the Grandes Jorasses (4208m)

    2012

    • Opening of the first wingsuit flight – Summit of the Drus, the Mont Blanc massif, (3733m)

    2010

    • Opening of the first wingsuit flight in Iran, Bisotoon wall, Kermanshah (1477m)

    2009 – 2010

    • Antarctica expedition, opening of the first wingsuit flight of the southern most continent of the planet, Holtanna (2880m)

    2009

    • 1st descent ski/snowboard of the Weisshorn south face with Samuel Anthamatten (4506m)

    2007

    • Baffin Island expedition, opening in wingsuit of 8 Mythic Summits and snowboarding incredible lines like the Polar Star Couloir

    2005

    • Mali expedition and wingsuit flight from the Hand of Fatima and opening of 3 other summits with the wingsuit

    Since 1996 Géraldine start competing in Freestyle snowboarding and later specialized in Freeride. In 2002 she won the Verbier X-treme in her first participation and began her career as a professional Freeride snowboarder. Subsequently, she won 11 international Freeride competitions at the “Freeride World Tour”, including 3 times in the grand final, the Verbier X-treme, and scored 23 podiums around the world.

     

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