Quick Facts David Lama

David Lama is one of the young and renowned sports climber and mountaineer. He is better recognized for his first free ascent of the Compressor Route on Cerro Torre. Lama is also the European Champion in Lead climbing and the European Champion in bouldering.

The 27 years old, David currently seems to be living a single life. Well in today’s session we will be revealing detail about his personal life as well as early life, career, net worth and much more. Stay with us!!!

David Lama Early Life and Career

David Lama was born on August 4, 1990, in Innsbruck, Austria to Nepali father, Rinzi Lama and Innsbruck Austria native mother, Claudia Werglef. His father Rinzi is a mountain guide from Nepal. Regarding his nationality, he is Austrian-Nepali and is of mixed descent.

CAPTION-David Lama and his family
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David Lama interested in climbing since his early childhood. He was just five years old when Himalayan veteran Peter Habeler noticed him climbing camp organized by him. Afterward, he became one of the parts of competition climbing.

CAPTION-David Lama young age photo
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David then gave most of his time to climbing. At the age of fifteen, he became the youngest person to compete at the bouldering world cup.

Youtube: David Lama climbing Cerro Torre;

Till the present context, he has won several honors including Youth World Champion 2004, European Champion 2007 Bouldering, IFSC Climbing World Cup, and so on. More recently, he tried to climb Mt.Annapurna III along with Austrian alpinists Hansjorg Auer and Alex Blumel, however, could not succeed. 

David Lama Personal Life

The 27 years old mountaineer,  David Lama is currently living a single life. He has not engaged in any love affairs and neither there is any news or rumors about his relationship bruited in the air. Currently, David Lama must be busy focusing on his Mountaineer career rather than getting involved in love affairs.

David Lama Net Worth

As an established mountaineer, David Lama makes a decent amount of money. Till the present context, he has won several awards comprising Youth World Champion 2004, IFSC Climbing World Cup, UIAA Climbing World Cup, Kranj, 2006 and so on which have helped to boost his net worth. As of 2018, David Lama’s exact figures are under review but analyzing his works, he appears to be making money in thousands of dollars.

CAPTION-David Lama climbing Lebanon cliff
Source-Red Bull

Apart from his climbing career, David Lama is also popular on social networking sites like Instagram. He has thousands of followers on it. However, the young mountain climber only shares photos related to his career due to which it has made little harder to know about his cars collection, houses, and personal matters.

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