Melissa Presslaber
Education: Certified ski-instructor and ski mountaineering guide /certified ski coach / Bachelor of Education
Homespot: Innsbruck/Tirol
Discipline: Freeski Mountaineering/Freeride
Sponsors: STUBAI, Fischer, Bergans of Norway, Pieps, Die Bergstation, Riggler, Uvex, Leki, Zanier
Hobbies: Friends, mountains, nature, skiing, biking, climbing
Melissa Presslaber has won due to her impressive alpine projects – even in summer – respect in the male-dominated freeride scene. She enjoys rightly an excellent reputation and due to her tranquil and authentic way she has won many fans. It all started, as in almost every alpine career in ski racing. She succeded in Freeride Competitions and finished the highest level of ski instructor education. After coaching activities around the globe it drove Mel back into the Austrian Alps and there far away from crowded slopes in the solitude of the backcountry. Freeriding became and is her life. First as a successful contest competitor, now as an ambitious freeski mountaineer.
Her Skifilmprojects:
Her solodescent at the Fletschhorn Northface is considered as a highlight of the film.
She has been to Skiexpeditions to Peru/South America, Mongolia, Morocco, India and can look back to some steep skiing descents in the alps, some of them solo.
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