He plays with the best in the world: Slackliner Lukas Irmler.
Now the 33-year-old was able to look forward to a heavyweight trophy from the DAV Freising.
Freising
- Since 2020 the Freising section of the German Alpine Club (DAV) has been awarded the "Golden Hook".
The award is to be given to a team or active person whose undertakings stand out through innovation, imagination and creativity in addition to sporting standards.
Last year the Hakl went to the “relay”, which combined different sports for the 150th anniversary of the Alpine Club and was organized by the Alpine Club for the old town festival.
This year the choice fell on Lukas Irmler - a mountaineer who has started a huge number of outstanding undertakings in recent years, in which he rose to the absolute world elite in his sport.
What was more than impressive was the creativity with which he selected the places where he was doing his work: As a slackliner, Irmler left behind invisible, but visible traces in the record books of this young, up-and-coming sport between bold, exposed towers.
He plays in the big sports world and has traveled to the most incredible places to stretch his line and then commit it.
He created unique tricks and demonstrated his immense endurance and ability to concentrate on the longline - the ultimate marathon challenge.
Always a child of the Freising Alpine Club
The 33-year-old from Dachau never made a secret of the fact that he was a child of the Freising Alpine Club.
So he committed one of his first slacklines in the AV garden - and he got his climbing equipment in the youth of the DAV.
He was always loyal to him and often appeared as a speaker at the Alpine Club.
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Congratulation!
Freising's Alpine Club boss Christian Rester (right) presented Lukas Irmler with the “Golden Hakl”.
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And the list of his sporting achievements is long: In 2019, Lukas Irmler ran the longest slackline in the world over a distance of two kilometers.
He balanced on the highest line, ran the longest distance with a blindfold, the longest slackline over water.
He was the first to dare to slackline from one icefall to another or to conquer the highest highline.
He also holds the record for the highest line between two cranes and the deepest line in a cave.
He also invented crazy tricks like the "Luke Skywalker" - he has had this honorary title since he managed the so-called plunge on the safety line under the rope and back to a standing position in 2013.
He also did a handstand on the wobbly belt.
Lukas Irmler made it into the Guinness Book of Records
But that's not all: Lukas Irmler made it into the Guinness Book of Records as well as in numerous television programs and on major stages.
The 33-year-old chose some of the most breathtaking places in the world: he was at Victoria Falls, on Table Mountain high above Cape Town, in China, Canada, Peru and many other places of longing.
Although the award ceremony could only take place in a small group due to the pandemic, Irmler was still very happy about the award from the Freising DAV.
In addition to the heavyweight "Golden Hakl", he also received a voucher.
He can redeem this for material that he will certainly need for his future projects on the slackline.
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