„Climbing high mountains, I feel free.“

Felix Berg is the CEO of Summitclimb (Summit Travel GmbH), an accomplished technical climber and graduate mathematician. He lives with his partner and their three children between Switzerland and France.

Born in 1980, Felix began mountaineering at the age of twelve and launched his expedition career in Peru in 2000. In 2001, he climbed Ama Dablam (Nepal), followed in 2002 by an ascent to 8,300 m on the demanding North Face of Kangchenjunga as part of an elite high-altitude team. In 2004, at just 23 years old, he became the youngest German to summit Mount Everest.

At heart, Felix is a passionate rock climber. He has climbed routes up to French grade 8b+ and completed numerous first ascents worldwide. East Africa—particularly Mount Kenya—has become a second home: he lived in Kenya for more than a year and personally designs and oversees Summitclimb’s African programs, continually exploring new mountains and climbing areas across the continent.

After a serious rockfall accident in 2012, Felix returned to high-altitude mountaineering in 2014 with the ascent of Broad Peak (8,047 m). From 2015 onward, he completed numerous 7,000-meter peaks, attempted new routes on Muztagh Tower and Annapurna, and added further demanding rock first ascents up to UIAA grade 10 (French 8b). In 2018, he summited Cho Oyu and Gasherbrum II via a new route; this was followed by Mount Everest in 2021, Gasherbrum II again in 2022, and a solo ascent of Manaslu in 2023 (climbed without supplemental oxygen).

Beyond the great ranges of Asia, Felix has led two Antarctic expeditions and explored numerous 5,000- and 6,000-meter peaks in the Himalaya and Karakoram, further rounding out his profile as a versatile and forward-thinking alpinist.