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= Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck = Peter Tümmers von Schoenebeck (born 23rd November 1965 in Singen) is a German extreme athlete, international whitewater expedition leader and a pioneer of mental coaching in elite sports in Germany.

Mental Coaching
Since 1999 he was within the first mental coaches with the German national Ski Jumping Team and Nordic Combined team coaching the later Olympic champions Sven Hannawald, Martin Schmitt and Georg Hettich. He introduced the empowerment principle, according to which athletes themselves are their own best mental experts by acquiring their own psychological competence. In 2008 he was officially appointed co-trainer and mental coach of the German national white water team.

Honours
For his innovative mental coaching approach the Coaching Institute he founded was awarded with the Innovation Price 2004 by the bavarian Minister of Economy.

Extreme athlete
As an extreme athlete and expedition leader, he is responsible for several kayak first descents of white-water rivers in the Himalayas and the European Alps. In 2008 he succeeded in a first descent of a sequence of the Modi Khola in the Annapurna massif (8016m). In 2011, he led an expedition in the Annapurna Area that was the first documented and since not repeated descent of a river starting directly from the glacier mouth of an 8000m peak (“Ice2jungle” expedition). In 2010 he was the first kayaker to descend the Canyon of the Stillach (Stillachklamm) in the Bavarian Alps near Oberstdorf.

Publications
As a specialist author, he has published expedition reports and mental columns in the high-circulation european kayak print medium Kanumagazin. GEO Wissen magazine dedicated a portrait to him in 2010.

He is mentioned in the British guidebook “White Water Nepal”, in which he contributed reports and photographs , as follows:

"Peter Tuemmers is an experienced river runner and expedition kayaker. He is a member of the famous European AKC whose Ice to Jungle expedition descent showed that new adventures are still available in Nepal."