Sissel was born in Arendal, Norway. Has since lived in Switzerland, Australia, Hong Kong, USA and UK.  She worked as an Intensive Care Nurse with heart transplant patients in Sydney before she moved to London  to help starting up a Medical Cardiac Research Company.

Sissel has always been a girl that needed a challenge and after finishing as a downhill skier, she then started climbing mountains instead.  Her love for the mountains has always been there.  She first went to Mount Everest in 2003 to test her bodies ability to adapt to extreme altitude.  After successfully reaching her goal at 7050 meters, North Col, she realized that her dream of climbing Everest was a possibility.

After making her first of the Seven Summits in August of 2004 when she climbed Mount Elbrus in Russia, she went on to become the third norwegian woman to make the summit of Mount Everest on the 5th of June 2005

Sissel has now completed all of the 7 Summits with Denali on the

25th of May 2010 and all of them she has made on her first attempt. 

She is using her experience to give motivational/inspirational  talks to school children.  She also organized a Kilimanjaro climb for breast cancer survivors in 2006.  All 14 made the summit.

She has also completed 4 ultra-marathons (250kms) with Racing the Planet. (Atacama in Chile 1st place, Namibia as part of team Good Sport, Sahara, Egypt as part of Team Good Sport and Nepal she came 4th woman overall.)

She became a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society in 2009. 

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