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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.
Gammelgaard is the 35th woman, and first Scandinavian woman, to climb Mount Everest, [1] reaching the summit via the South East Ridge on 10 May 1996, as part of Scott Fischer's tragic expedition. Her book Climbing High (1998) recounts the 1996 Everest disaster when a storm took the lives of Scott Fischer, Rob Hall, and six other climbers. Her ...
Margo Hayes (born February 11, 1998) [1] is an American professional rock climber from Boulder, Colorado.In 2016, she won both the competition bouldering and the competition lead climbing events at the IFSC Climbing World Youth Championships in Guangzhou ().
Araceli Segarra (born March 1970 in Lleida, Spain) is the first Spanish woman to have climbed Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. [1] She has also climbed Broad Peak (1991) Shishapangma (1992), K2 (2002), Kanchenjunga (2005) and Nanga Parbat (2008).
Anna Gutu [a] (1990 or 1991 – October 7, 2023) was a Ukrainian-American climber and high-altitude mountaineer. She is known for her pursuit to become the first American woman, and the third overall American climber, to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders (which are peaks above 8,000 meters in elevation).
In the lead round Raboutou's 72.0 points were enough to move her into first place with 156.0 points and only two climbers to go, guaranteeing her first Olympic medal.
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]
After a climbing trip to the Rwenzori Mountains in 2005, Levine founded a nonprofit organization, the Climb High Foundation, which trains jobless women in western Uganda to work as trekking guides and porters in their local mountains. [citation needed] Levine's book On the Edge was published by Hachette Book Group and was released in January ...