Name: Petra Rapp
Company: Bergsteiger Magazin (existing since 90 years and the oldest commercial mountain magazin in the world)
Title: Editor (freelance)
Country: Germany
Favorite outdoor activities:
Every kind of skiing (skitouring, freeride, alpine skiing, cross country skiing), mountaineering, hiking, mountain biking, long walks in the wilderness with my dog, trekking-trips in the Himalaya-region.
What’s your main contribution of being in the Jury do you think?
I’m working nearly 30 years as an freelance journalist in the outdoor scene, writing about and also testing many different products. And I’m doing many kinds of outdoor sports in an intense way in my life. Also with my kids, who are grown up meanwhile. Therefore I think, I have a good feeling about products, which works and which don’t in practice. Editing the „Grünen Seiten“ in our magazine, I always have the ecological side of new products in mind…