Liv Sansoz (born 12 February 1977) is a French professional

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er. She is known for being three times

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winner and twice

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. She had a year off after a fall but returned and climbed every Alp over 4,000 metres.

Climbing career

Sansoz was born in

Bourg-Saint-Maurice Bourg-Saint-Maurice (; Arpitan: ''Bôrg-Sant-Mori'' or simply ''Le Bôrg''), popularly known as Bourg, is a commune in the Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. Located on the Italian border south of Cha ...

in 1977 and grew up in the alps where she discovered climbing. Her parents built her a climbing wall and by 16 she was in the French National team. She has twice been the world champion and she has won the World Cup three times. She lost her confidence for a year after she cracked a vertebra in her neck after a 10-metre fall. This ended her competitive career but she regained her confidence to climb. In 2017 she set out to climb every Alpine summit over 4,000 metres in a year. By July she was suffering from sleep deprivation but she had climbed 48 peaks combining the descent with skiing and paragliding when it was possible. Sometimes she was waking at three in the morning and then climbing for over 12 hours in a day.

Rankings

Climbing World Cup

Climbing World Championships

Number of medals in the Climbing World Cup

Lead

Notable climbs

Redpointed

: :* ''Hasta La Vista'' -

Mount Charleston Mount Charleston, including Charleston Peak (Nuvagantu, literally "where snow sits", in Southern Paiute or Nüpakatütün in Shoshoni) at , is the highest mountain in both the Spring Mountains and Clark County, in Nevada, United States. It ...

(USA) - 1 August 2000 - Second female ascent of an 8c+ route : :* ''Route of all evil'' - Virgin River Gorge (USA) - 8 April 2001 :* ''Soul of train'' -

(USA) - 20 August 2000 : :* ''White Wedding'' - Smith Rock (USA) - 6 May 2008 :* ''Fox et Mathews'' -

Orgon Orgon (; ancient: ''Urgonum'', or ''Castrum de Urgone'') is a commune in the Bouches-du-Rhône department in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region in Southern France. It is located on the departmental border with Vaucluse, which follows the ...

(FRA) - 9 April 1999 :* ''Rio de janvier'' - Calanques (FRA) - 1 March 1998 :* ''Sortilège'' - Cimaï (FRA) - 1 May 1996

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: :* ''Berlin'' -

Céüse Céüse () is a limestone mountain in the Hautes-Alpes ''département in France, département'' of France near Gap, Hautes-Alpes, Gap and Sigoyer, Hautes-Alpes, Sigoyer. The "Pic de Céüse" is at an elevation of , and the whole massif is include ...

(FRA) :* ''War Lords'' -

(USA) - 1 August 2000 :* ''Le Danti'' - Calanques (FRA)

Big wall

* ''Super Cirill'' - Ticino (SUI) - 2010 * ''The Nose'' -

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(USA) - 2008

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