The two-time Olympic champion from 2018 and seven-time world champion Laura Dahlmeier is still in top form after the end of her career - as a mountaineer in the Himalayas. The report "Altitude Rush - Laura Dahlmeier's Life After Biathlon" provides insights into this second career, in which freedom means more than titles and medals.
"If things always go uphill, then at some point you won't learn anything anymore," says the now 31-year-old Laura Dahlmeier about her decision to stop competing in competitive sports at the age of 25. But this premature retirement of one of the most successful German winter sportswomen of all time did not stop her sporting activities – she competed in the Mountain Running World Championships, among others, and has shown in the Himalayasthat she is still in top shape five years after the end of her career.
Video: Laura Dahlmeier and the intoxication of heights
In the 45-minute Sportstudio Reportage The exceptional athlete Laura Dahlmeier can be seen on her new path away from professional sport. In the film, she provides personal insights into her life. Friends and family have their say and round off the picture of a self-determined, risk-taking and ambitious protagonist, for whom things continued to go uphill even after the end of her title hunt in biathlon - to the top of the mountains.
After the end of her career, Laura Dahlmeier trained as a mountain guide and volunteered for the Garmisch mountain rescue service. The amateur mountaineer became an ambitious alpinist who ventured far beyond the Alps: alone on a challenging expedition to the Himalayas, accompanied only by a cameraman. Her goal: the summit of the mountain Mistress Dablam in Nepal at an altitude of over 6800 meters.
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Credits: Cover picture Laura Dahlmeier, Text ZDF