# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/lene-gammelgaard
# Generated: 2026-08-13T08:16:09.073Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/lene-gammelgaard"
name: "Lene Gammelgaard"
slug: "lene-gammelgaard"
description: "Lene Gammelgaard is a Danish climber, author, and motivational speaker. Gammelgaard is the 35th woman, and first Scandinavian woman, to climb Mount Everest, reaching the summit via the South East Ridge on 10 May 1996, as part of Scott Fischer's tragic expedition. Her book Climbing High (1998) recounts the 1996 Everest disaster when a storm took the lives of Fischer, Rob Hall, and six other climbers. Her book sold over 1 million copies and was translated into 13 languages. Gammelgaard was portrayed in the 2015 film Everest by actress Charlotte Bøving."
tagline: "Danish climber, author, and motivational speaker"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1961-12-18"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           48.91
  momentum:             2.488248198057035
  historical:           5.210126666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "X"
    url:       "https://x.com/lenegammelgaard"
    handle:    "lenegammelgaard"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/WorldClassSpeaker"
    handle:    "WorldClassSpeaker"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.lenegammelgaard.dk"
sources:
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lene_Gammelgaard"
    title: "Lene Gammelgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%86_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%85%D9%8A%D9%84%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF"
    title: "لين جاميلجارد"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lene_Gammelgaard"
    title: "Lene Gammelgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lene_Gammelgaard"
    title: "Lene Gammelgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lene_Gammelgaard"
    title: "Lene Gammelgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lene_Gammelgaard"
    title: "Lene Gammelgaard"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q546378"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump