Heinz Grill

Heinz Grill began to climb from the age of twelve.{{cite book |last=Elberg |first=Karl |title=Vom Wesen des Berges |publisher=Lammers-Koll-Verlag |date=August 2001 |isbn=978-3-935925-80-8 |location=Niefern-Öschelbrunn |page=26}}

At the age of seventeen he soloed the Pumprisse route on the Fleischbank in the Wilder Kaiser,{{cite journal |first=R. |last=Stumhofer |title=Heinz Grill- un solitarista molto ardito |journal=Der Bergsteiger |issue=5 |date=1979 |pages=281–286 |language=German }} an undertaking that caused a sensation and scandal, because it was the first solo ascent of the first route in the Alps officially rated as 7th grade. Following this undertaking (considered by traditionalists a provocation because it was daring but dangerous), Heinz Grill was excluded from the Alpenverein (Alpine Club) of Wasserburg.{{cite news |first=Gerd |last=Heidorn |title=Felsenphilosoph Heinz Grill- Das Spiel mit dem Rhythmus |work=Panorama |date=2013 |page=92 |language=German }} However, in 1977 he was awarded the Golden Carabiner prize for his solo ascents in the Wilder Kaiser.

During the years 1975 - 1990 he climbed the rock routes alone, without ropes and safety devices. These include: in the Karwendel in Austria on Punta Laliderer the Rebitsch route, on the Pilastro Lalider the Rebitsch route; {{sfn | Heidorn | 2013 | p = 94}} in the Sella Group on Piz Ciavazes the via Soldà, the routes of Armando Aste (for example the Ezio Polo) on the Marmolada,{{cite book| first=Maurizio | last=Giordani | title=Marmolada Parete Sud | year= 2008| editor=Versante Sud | page=24}} la Via Ideale,{{cite book |first=Lorenzo |last=Massarotto |title=Le vie | page=420 }} via Canna d’Organo and via Comici in Civetta;{{cite book | first=Ivo | last=Rabanser | title=Civetta | year=2012 | publisher=Club Alpino Italiano | page=166}} and the Regular Route on the Half Dome in Yosemite.{{sfn|Heidorn|2013|p=94}} In this period he made himself known as a daring solo climber. In 1988 he began working as a writer; in 2000 he moved to live in Italy in Arco, Trentino.

File:Arco, Italy.jpg, Grill's home from 2000 onwards. He has opened many new itineraries in the area.]]

From 2006 to 2016 he opened about 80 routes in the {{ill|Valle del Sarca|it|lt=Sarca Valley}} in Trentino; these have increased the infrastructure of Arco and its surroundings.“Valle del Sarca- I protagonisti” Renzo Bassi in "Montagne", 52, settembre 2011, pag. 37-38 e 75-85.{{cite web |date=19 November 2016 |title=Heinz Grill |url=https://alpinline.blogspot.it/2016/04/heinz-grill.html |language=Italian |access-date=4 August 2022 |archive-date=28 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195346/http://alpinline.blogspot.it/2016/04/heinz-grill.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/arrampicata/grazie-heinz-grill-di-ivo-ferrari.html |title=Grazie Heinz Grill |first=Ivo |last=Ferrari |date=25 March 2013 |access-date=18 November 2016 |archive-date=28 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228201635/http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/arrampicata/grazie-heinz-grill-di-ivo-ferrari.html |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=http://osservatorioliberta.it/lo-sviluppo-dellarrampicata-nella-valle-del-sarca-921 |title=Lo sviluppo dell'arrampicata nella Valle del Sarca |first=Alessandro |last=Gogna |access-date=18 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195514/http://osservatorioliberta.it/lo-sviluppo-dellarrampicata-nella-valle-del-sarca-921 |archive-date=28 December 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |url=http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/alpinismo/arrampicata-sul-monte-brento-laspettativa-dei-mondi-superiori-la-perla-di-heinz-grill.html |title=Arrampicata sul Monte Brento: L'aspettativa dei mondi superiori... la perla di Heinz Grill |access-date=19 November 2016 |archive-date=28 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228202256/http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/alpinismo/arrampicata-sul-monte-brento-laspettativa-dei-mondi-superiori-la-perla-di-heinz-grill.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |first=Agostino |last=da Polenza |url=http://montagna.tv/cms/94056/heinz-grill-il-custode-del-regno-di-arco/ |title=Heinz Grill il custode del regno di Arco |work=montagna.tv |date=7 May 2012 |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229031615/http://montagna.tv/cms/94056/heinz-grill-il-custode-del-regno-di-arco/ |archive-date=29 December 2016 |url-status=dead}} Heinz Grill's routes in the Sarca Valley are called "rhythmic routes"“Heinz Grill l'alpinista ritmico”, Roberto Iacopelli, in ALP, November 2009, pp. 49-52. and have a character between sports and mountaineering climbing.{{cite news |first=Florian |last=Kluckner |title=Vom Meißeln einer Idee zur Skulptur- Klettertouren ohne Bohrhaken in arco |work=AVS Magazin |date=2015 |pages=19–20 |language=German }} Heinz Grill stated that the routes were opened from below in a mountaineering style, but were later "sculpted and created" through extensive cleaning work.{{cite web |url=http://cinemaitaliano.info/news/17990/trento-film-festival-dolomitiche-opere-d.html |title=Dolomitiche |access-date=16 November 2016 |archive-date=29 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229031647/http://cinemaitaliano.info/news/17990/trento-film-festival-dolomitiche-opere-d.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |first=Mirko |last=Mottin |url=http://www.actionmagazine.it/rubrica/personaggi/dolomitiche-opere-d-arte-a-cielo-aperto/ |title=DoloMitiche |work=Action Magazine |date=30 April 2013 |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-date=28 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228200344/http://www.actionmagazine.it/rubrica/personaggi/dolomitiche-opere-d-arte-a-cielo-aperto/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite web |url=http://www.arrampicata-ledro.it/valledelsarca/VieValleDelSarca/CosteAnglone.htm |title=Coste Dell'Anglone |access-date=10 November 2016 |archive-date=10 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161110091558/http://www.arrampicata-ledro.it/ValleDelSarca/VieValleDelSarca/CosteAnglone.htm |url-status=live }}

He has created 30 new rock routes in the Dolomites, for example in the Pale di San Martino on the Cima Immink the Via Internazionale and the Via Nuova,{{cite news |author=Alessandro Beber |url=https://www.visittrentino.it/it/guida/sport-estate/ferrate/25deg-uscita-9-luglio-2012-nuova-via_md_1051 |title=25 uscita 9 luglio 2012- Nuova via |work=visittrentino Trentino Marketing |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228195050/https://www.visittrentino.it/it/guida/sport-estate/ferrate/25deg-uscita-9-luglio-2012-nuova-via_md_1051 |archive-date=28 December 2016 |url-status=dead}}{{YouTube |id=2Q1D2BYdySM |title= DoloMitiche-Nuova via }} in the Brenta Dolomites on the Croz dell'Altissimo the Via in Memoria of Samuele Scalet{{cite news |first=Carlo |last=Caccia |url=http://www.cai.it/uploads/media/Montagne360_aprile_01.pdf#page=12&zoom=auto,203,37 |title=Sul Croz dell'Altissimo una via per ricordare Samuele Scalet |work=Montagne360 |date=April 2014 |access-date=20 November 2016 |pages=68–69 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160327215235/http://www.cai.it/uploads/media/Montagne360_aprile_01.pdf#page=12&zoom=auto,203,37 |archive-date=27 March 2016 |url-status=dead}} on the Pale di San Lucano, on the Spiz di Lagunaz the Pilastro Massarotto route,{{cite web |url=http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/alpinismo/pilastro-massarotto-allo-spiz-di-lagunaz-prima-salita-per-grill-comploi-e-rabanser.html |title=Pilastro Massarotto allo Spiz di Lagunaz- prima salita per Grill, Comploi e Rabanser |access-date=10 November 2016 |archive-date=28 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161228202210/http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/alpinismo/pilastro-massarotto-allo-spiz-di-lagunaz-prima-salita-per-grill-comploi-e-rabanser.html |url-status=live }} and the Via Collaborazione (awarded by Silla Ghedina the most beautiful Dolomite route of 2012), in Vallaccia.{{cite news |first=Beppe |last=Ballico |url=http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/alpinismo/via-giove-un-altro-gioiellino-arrampicata-di-heinz-grill-in-vallaccia-dolomiti.html |title=Via Giove, un altro gioiellino d'arrampicata di Heinz Grill & Co in Vallaccia, Dolomiti |date=18 October 2016 |access-date=19 November 2016 |archive-date=21 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161021210022/http://www.planetmountain.com/it/notizie/alpinismo/via-giove-un-altro-gioiellino-arrampicata-di-heinz-grill-in-vallaccia-dolomiti.html |url-status=live }}{{cite news |first=Carlo |last=Caccia |title=Nel regno di Graziano Maffei: Rabanser, Grill &C. firmano Saturno alla Piramide Armani |work=Montagne 360 |date=October 2016 |page=71}} among many others.{{cite news |first=Massimo |last=Bodii |title=Mottarone bello e accessibile |work=Pareti |date=2007 |pages=89–91}}{{cite news |first=Carlo |last=Caccia |url=http://www.mountainblog.it/sassolungo-prima-ascensione-della-via-manuel-moroder-2013sas/ |title=Sassolungo, 15 luglio 2013: Prima ascensione della via Manuel Moroder |work=mountainblog |access-date=20 November 2016 |archive-date=29 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229032015/http://www.mountainblog.it/sassolungo-prima-ascensione-della-via-manuel-moroder-2013sas/ |url-status=live }}

In addition to appreciation, Grill's mountaineering work has been criticised: the routes he opened, according to some, would in fact only appear to be mountaineering, but in reality were banal, with dug holds, overloaded with coiled ropes and stops made with wood (which could be considered dangerous).Andrea G. Daneri in “Pareti” 78, 2010, p.4Andrea G. Daneri in "Pareti” 80, 2011, pp. 75-78

File:Padangushtasana, Heinz Grill 1992 (cropped).jpg, Toe Stand]]

{{further|Yoga in Italy}}

Grill teaches and writes about yoga and meditation in the mountainous northern province of Trentino, Italy.{{cite web |title=Contributions to a new Yoga Will: An individual yoga path for shaping sociability |url=https://heinz-grill.de/en/ |publisher=Heinz Grill |access-date=5 August 2022}}{{cite web |last1=Hobusch |first1=Marie-Kristin C. |title=Heinz Grill: Kurzes Portrait |url=https://www.yoga-und-synthese.de/referenten/referenten/ |website=Yoga. Sozialer Prozess. Spiritualität |date=31 May 2016 |access-date=5 August 2022 |language=German |archive-date=1 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220701172040/https://www.yoga-und-synthese.de/referenten/referenten/ |url-status=live }}

In 1977 Grill received the Golden Carabiner award from the German Alpine Club of Wasserburg.{{cite web | url=http://www.alpenverein-wasserburg.de/goldener-karabiner/ | title=Goldener Karabiner }}

The Silla Ghedina prize for the best climbing in the Dolomites 2012 was awarded to Grill with his companions Franz and Martin Heiss and Florian Kluckner, for the Collaboration route.{{cite web | url=http://www.fondazionesillaghedina.it/2015/08/premio-del-2013-2/ | title=Premio Silla Ghedina miglior scalata dolomitica 2012 }}

In 2017 Grill was nominated as a Scholar of the Italian Academic Climbing Club.{{cite news |url=http://www.clubalpinoaccademico.it/index.php/news-2/news-gruppo-orientale/item/304-san-leo-convegno-gruppo-orientale-10-11-giugno-2017 |title=Convegno del Gruppo Orientale del CAAI a San Leo con la presentazione dei nuovi ammessi |access-date=16 January 2018}}

Grill writes on subjects including medicine, yoga, architecture, spirituality, philosophy, and mountaineering. He has published over 100 works in German.{{cite web |url=https://konstanz.summon.serialssolutions.com/de-DE/search?s.q=Heinz+Grill#!/search?ho=t&l=de-DE&q=Heinz%20Grill |title=Heinz Grill |access-date=20 November 2016}}{{cite web |url=http://de.stw-verlag.com/rezensionen/ |title=Rezensionen |language=German |access-date=16 November 2016 |archive-date=29 December 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161229035207/http://de.stw-verlag.com/rezensionen/ |url-status=live }} Some of his works have been translated into Dutch, English, and Italian.{{cite web |title=au:Heinz Grill |url=https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au%3AHeinz+Grill&fq=%28x0%3Abook-+OR+%28x0%3Abook+x4%3Aprintbook%29+-%28%28x0%3Abook+x4%3Adigital%29%29+-%28%28x0%3Abook+x4%3Acontinuing%29%29%29&dblist=638&fc=ln:_25&qt=show_more_ln%3A&cookie |publisher=WorldCat |access-date=5 August 2022 |archive-date=5 August 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220805082244/https://www.worldcat.org/search?q=au:Heinz+Grill&fq=(x0:book-+OR+(x0:book+x4:printbook)+-((x0:book+x4:digital))+-((x0:book+x4:continuing)))&dblist=638&fc=ln:_25&qt=show_more_ln:&cookie |url-status=live }}

; In English

• 2011 Climbing Routes in the Sarca Valley: A rhythmical experience in climbing. Teola Idea Montagna Editoria e Alpinismo.{{Cite book |last=Grill |first=Heinz |title=Climbing Routes in the Sarca Valley |publisher=Idea Montagna Edizioni S.r.l. |year=2011 |isbn=978-88-97299-14-1 |location=Italy |language=de |trans-title=Klettertouren im Sarcatal}}

; In English

• 1996: Harmony in Breathing, Heinrich Hugendubel Verlag.{{Cite book |last=Grill |first=Heinz |title=Harmony in Breathing |publisher=Heinrich Hugendubel |year=1996 |isbn=978-3980423045 |location=Germany |language=de |trans-title=Harmonie im Atmen}}
• 2004: The spiritualising of the body: an artistic and spiritual path with yoga. Lammers-Koll Verlag.{{Cite book |last=Grill |first=Heinz |title=The Spiritualising of the Body |publisher=Lammer-Koll-Verlag |year=2005 |isbn=978-3-935925-58-7 |location=Germany |language=de |trans-title=Die Vergeistigung des Leibes}}
• 2005: The soul dimension of yoga: a practical foundation for a path of spiritual practice. Lammers-Koll Verlag.{{Cite book |last=Heinz |first=Grill |title=The Soul Dimension of Yoga |publisher=Lammers-Koll-Verlag |year=2005 |isbn=978-3-935925-57-0 |location=Germany |language=de |trans-title=Die Seelendimension des Yoga}}
• 2007: Nutrition and the inner sense of giving the spiritual meaning of food. Lammers-Koll Verlag.{{cite book |last=Heinz |first=Grill |title=Nutrition and the inner sense of giving |publisher=Lammer-Koll-Verlag |year=2007 |isbn=978-3-935925-53-2 |location=Germany |language=de |trans-title=Ernährung und die gebende Kraft des Menschen |access-date=}}
• 2012: Enriching the Life and Health of the Chest Area. Lammers-Koll-Verlag.{{Cite book |last=Grill |first=Heinz |title=Enriching the Life and Health of the Chest Area |publisher=Lammers-Koll-Verlag |year=2012 |isbn=978-3-935925-34-1 |location=Germany |language=de |trans-title=Die Gesunderhaltung des Brustorganismus}}

{{reflist|30em}}

• Alessandro Beber, doloMITICHE-opere d'arte a cielo aperto, Vividolomiti, 2014, pp. 100–111, ISBN 978-88-907887-6-5.
• Mauro Bernardi, Arrampicare in Val Gardena, Dolomiti, Athesia, 2002, p. 222, ISBN 978-88-6839-065-5.
• Dante Colli, "Nella Valle del Sarca- Colloquio con il filosofo-alpinista Heinz Grill", in La Rivista, May–June 2010, pp. 26–29.
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• Lorenzo Massarotto, Le vie, Luca Visentini, 2013, Pordenone, ISBN 978-88-88099-11-8.
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• Georg Schmid, Kirchen Sekten Religionen, Theologischer Verlag Zürich, 2003, p. 251- 252 ISBN 978-3-290-17215-2.
• Richard Stumhofer, Heinz Grill- un solitarista molto ardito in Der Bergsteiger, Issue 5, 1979, pp. 281–86.
• Reto Zbinden, Jubiläums Textbuch, Yoga Journal Verlag, Zürich, 2008, Pag. 524 ISBN 3-931172-27-9.

• [http://www.arrampicata-arco.com/ Sport and Alpine climbing in Valle del Sarca and in the Dolomites]
• [https://heinz-grill.de/en/ Contributions to a New Yoga Will]

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