Gerlinde kaltenbrunner kangchenjunga controversy
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Is Korean Oh Eun-sun first woman to climb 14 top peaks?
The moment Oh Eun-sun reached the summit of Annapurna
By Stephen Mulvey |
Korea's Oh Eun-sun says she is the first woman to have climbed the world's 14 highest mountains, but one of her peaks is being disputed. Why?
THE WORLD'S HIGHEST PEAKS There are 14 mountains on Earth above 8,000m (26,247 ft) high All are in the Himalayan and Karakorum mountain ranges The first to climb all 14 was Italian Reinhold Messner, in 1986 A total of 20 men, and now one woman, have done it |
There is no one "official" record of who has, or has not, climbed the 14 peaks over 8,000m high.
The nearest thing - for the nine of the 14 mountains in the Nepali Himalayas, at least - is the record kept by Elizabeth Hawley, an 86-year-old American based in Kathmandu.
Records kept by governments are not regarded as authoritative.
Last week Ms Hawley amended her Himalayan Database to mark Oh Eun-sun's 2009 ascent of Kangchenjunga as "disputed", after listening to arguments from Ms Oh's Spanish rival, Edurne Pasaban.
Ms Hawley will interview Ms Oh and her Sherpas on their return from Annapurna.
If she decides to classify Ms Oh's ascent of Kangchenjunga as "u
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Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
Austrian mountaineer
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (born 13 December 1970) is an Austrian mountaineer. In August 2011, she became the second woman to climb the fourteen eight-thousanders and the first woman to do so without using supplemental oxygen or high-altitude porters.[1][2][3] In 2012, she won the prestigious National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award.[4]
Mountaineering
[edit]Her interest in mountain climbing developed at a young age, and by the age of 13, she had completed climbing tours at the local Sturzhahn. As she pursued her nursing training in Vienna, Austria, she continued to hone her skills by participating in numerous ski, ice- and rock-climbing tours. At the age of 32, Kaltenbrunner climbed her fourth 8000m peak, Nanga Parbat, and decided to pursue professional mountain climbing full-time.[5]
Eight-thousanders
[edit]Together with Edurne Pasaban and Nives Meroi she is one of only three women who have climbed the fourteen eight-thousanders. Kaltenbrunner climbs without supplemental oxygen, which makes her the first woman to officially reach all fourteen eight-thousanders without the use of supplementary oxygen.[6]
She summited Broad Peak on 12 July 2007, together with
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Did this bride really graduation all 14 of description world's tallest peaks?
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