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Carla Pérez (born 28 December 1982) is an Ecuadorian climber.In 2019 she became the first woman to successfully summit both Everest and K2 in the same year (in 1995 Alison Hargreaves reached both summits unsupported and without supplemental oxygen but died descending K2), and the first woman from the Americas to summit K2 without supplemental oxygen.
Lhakpa Sherpa (Nepali: Lakhpa Sherpa; born 1973) [1] is a Nepalese Sherpa mountain climber.She has climbed Mount Everest ten times, the most by any woman in the world. [2] [3] Her record-breaking tenth climb was on May 12, 2022, which she financed via a crowd-funding campaign. [4]
Anna Czerwińska (10 July 1949 – 31 January 2023) [1] was a Polish climber. She is known for being the then-oldest woman to summit Mount Everest , doing so at the age of 50. She also published several books about mountaineering.
Laura Rogora (born 28 April 2001) is an Italian rock climber who specializes in sport climbing and in competition climbing (and competition lead climbing in particular). In 2021, she became the third-ever female climber in history to redpoint a 9b (5.15b)-graded sport climbing route, with her ascent of Erebor in Italy.
Kaamya Karthikeyan is an Indian climber who lives in Mumbai, Maharashtra. At 17 years of age, she became the youngest female in the world to complete the Seven Summits challenge in 2024. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] At sixteen years of age, she also became the youngest Indian mountaineer and second youngest girl in the world to summit Mount Everest from ...
Mollie Hughes was born on 3 July 1990 and grew up in Torbay in Devon. [2]She studied psychology and sports biology at the University of the West of England, in Bristol.For her final year project, she decided to investigate the psychological experience of climbing Mount Everest, interviewing seven male climbers who had all reached the summit.
National Geographic noted that at the height of her career in the early to mid-2000s, "She was also climbing two or three grades harder than any other woman". [14] A 2017 Climbing magazine review of the history of women's climbing noted that "In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the Basque Josune Bereziartu became the world’s best female sport ...
Three days later, On October 2, Peggy Luce Gudgell of the same team became a second American woman who reached the Everest summit. [5] In 1993, Stacy was a team leader of K2 attempt. [3] She was later part of a team that marked the first successful all-women ascent of Ama Dablam, a mountain of 22,495 ft. [6]