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Heidi Nilima Monsen (2 February 1978 - 31 May 2021)

Personal life
Heidi Nilima Monsen was born on 2 February 1978 in Alta, Norway to parents Grete Nilima Monsen and Ole Monsen, who had gotten married in 1977.

Nilima Monsen attended secondary school in Alta, where she was active in the student council.

Strength athletics
Nilima Monsen participated in the first Norwegian strongwoman competition held in August 2004 in Sør Trøndelag. She was the only participant from Northern Norway. She trained for three months in preperations for the competition, but she had only practiced one of the five excerices to be held at the event. She placed third in the competition, losing to second place by one point. She stated her intention to beat the champion, Anne Sonesen, at the following year's competition with intensive training.

For a competition the following year, Nilima Monsen stated that she was far more prepared. A week and a half before she was set to travel to Kristiandsand to compete, she enquired in the newspaper Finnmark Dagblad about loaning a car weighing three metric tonnes that she could use for training. She finished second at Kristiansand Show-Lifting, where she placed second in three of four excercises.

At Ibestad Strong Show held 30 July she could not participate due to not being either a man or an Ibestad local. Instead, she participated in an interval act where she would pull a 1-tonne Volkswagen Polo 100 metres in 100 seconds. Due to the lack of space at the event, she opted for 60 metres in 60 seconds instead. She pulled the car to the finish in 36.2 seconds, after which she decided to add a 1.3 tonne Ford Sierra to the load. After pulling the combined 2.4 tonnes (including passangers) for 20 metres, she gave up, exhausted. She stated that her failure was to due the difficulty of gaining footing on the gravel path. She pulled the car by tying a loop around her waist, with only clothes and a weight lifting belt between.

Politics
In February 2012, Nilima Monsen was elected as the leader of the local Alta branch of the Liberal Party after a party assembly. In April 2013, she stepped down from the party to focus on her career in journalism.

Journalism
In December 2018, Nilima Monsen stepped down as editor of Ruijan Kaiku, though she would still remain a journalist there. She stated that she was unprepared for the responsibilities the job would bear in regards to her uncertain health.

Health and death
In 2017, Nilima Monsen started experiencing exhaustion, and on New Years Eve, she suffered heavy bleeding. She was transported to Hammerfest Hospital, where the doctors believed she had developed uterine fibroids, against which they recommended her take medicine to reduce their size. She was asked to return three months later. She returned to the hospital in February after more bleeding where she was asked to provide tissue samples. In March 2018, Nilima Monsen was diagnosed with endometrial cancer. Since January, the tumour had grown from 2.5 to 6 centimetres. After an operation on 15 March, she started chemotherapy.

After six rounds of chemotherapy, Nilima Monsen stated on Facebook on 28 August 2018 that she had been declared cancer-free after a CT scan done that day. She stated her intention to go on vacation to Spain after her Summer had been spent being sick. A check-up was scheduled three months in the future. During the New Year to 2021, her cancer had resurged, and on 31 May 2021, her brother wrote on Facebook that Nilima Monsen had died that night at the local clinic. Her funeral was held at Elvebakken Church on 9 June 2021.