Lotta Hintsa. Photo: Otavamedia
Mountaineer Lotta Hintsa has conquered several well-known mountain peaks, such as Broad Peak (8051m) on the border of Pakistan and China and Gasherbrum II (8035m) in Pakistan. In Europe, he has climbed to the top of Mont Blanc and Gran Paradiso, the highest mountains in France and Italy.
– I’m not going to the mountains to play any Russian roulette, it’s more about playing chess. I always get all the information I can about the mountain before the trip. I want to know everything myself. If all the infrastructure around disappears, you have to know how to climb down the mountain yourself, says Lotta Hintsa in the Hymy magazine printed in January.
Miss Finland 2013 Lotta Hintsa.
Sirpa Rydman’s fashion show at Helsinki Messukeskus Business Days on September 23, 2015
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However, not everything has always gone according to plan. In October 2023, Lotta was hiking towards the base camp in Nepal in the Himalayan mountains when an accident happened.
– I hit my head quite badly in a strange accident that could practically have happened on the sidewalk. There were great people around me, so they helped me in first aid, so I was able to hike 13 km back to the village with the power of adrenaline, and then to the nearest small hospital in Chame to clean and sew up the wound, Lotta told about what happened on social media at the time.
The accident has not brought fear to Lotta, but a certain kind of caution has.
– It taught me that dangers often lie in places where you don’t think anything will happen. In the same way as it is said that the most crashes and accidents happen on your home street. That’s when you should concentrate even more, and not let your concentration waver, he says in the printed Hymy magazine.
Not flirting with death
Lotta does not feel that she is flirting with death, although she is aware of the dangers of the sport.
– Every one of us will die here. If I’m supposed to go on some mountain, that’s ok, but I trust the guidance. to the places you want to go. I never do anything that feels dangerous.
After the accident, Lotta was diagnosed with a brain injury, the consequences of which she still experiences.
– There will still be days when you notice challenges with short-term memory and producing speech is more difficult than normal.
This situation was also quite a “near miss”.
– If the blow had hit another part of the head, it could have been worse. The position of the head saved. It didn’t come directly to the temple, Lotta says now afterwards.
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Lotta Hintsa. Photo: Otavamedia
Source: hymy.fi
