Brigitte Muir

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Brigitte Muir
Personal information
BornBrigitte Leonce Suzanne Koch
(1958-09-08) 8 September 1958 (age 67)
Ougrée, Seraing, Belgium
Spouse
Eric Renz
Climbing career
Major ascentsMount Everest (1997)
Seven Summits (1997)
Shivling (1986)

Brigitte Leonce Suzanne Muir OAM (born 8 September 1958)[1] is a Belgian-born Australian mountain climber. Her climbing career spanned over thirty years.[2]

Early life and education

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Muir was born Brigitte Koch in Ougrée, Belgium.

Climbing career

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In 1986, she made, with husband at the time Jon Muir and friend Graeme Hill, the first ascent of the South West Pillar of Shivling in Northern India.[3]

In 1997, she became the first Australian woman to summit Mount Everest[3][4][5] and the first Australian, male or female, to climb the Seven Summits (the highest summit on each of the continents).[6]

In 1998, Penguin (Viking) published her autobiography, The Wind in My Hair.

In 2008, SBS broadcast The Eighth Summit, a documentary directed and produced by wife and husband team Anne and Wayne Tindall, and based on Brigitte’s life.[7]

After her career in mountaineering and adventure, Brigitte became a film maker[8] and an inspirational speaker.[9] She leads community building treks in the village of Lura in Eastern Nepal, where she started a women’s literacy and empowerment program.[10][11][12]

Awards and citations

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  • Australian Geographic Society Spirit of Adventure Awards, 1997[13]
  • Australia Day Achievers Award 1998
  • Order of Australia Medal, for services to mountaineering, 2000[14]
  • Centenary Medal, For service to Australia through mountaineering, 2001[15]
  • Victorian Honour Roll of Women, 2001[16]

Bibliography

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  • Ross MacDowell, Inside Story. 20 Famous Australians Tell Their Story, Hobson Dell, Brighton,2001
  • Susan Geason, Australian Heroines, stories of courage and survival, ABC Books, Sydney, 2001
  • Martin Flanagan, Faces in the Crowd, One Day Hill, 2004
  • Everest. Reflections from the Top. Edited by Christine Gee, Garry Weare and Margaret Gee, Rider, 2003.

References

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Other sources

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