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First woman to successfully climb K2 Wanda Rutkiewicz ( Polish pronunciation: [/ˈvanda rutˈkʲevitʂ/] 4 February 1943 – 12–13 May 1992) was a Polish mountaineer and computer engineer. [ 1 ] She was the first woman to reach the summit of K2 and the third woman (first European woman) to summit Mount Everest .
The first woman to summit K2 was Polish climber Wanda Rutkiewicz on 23 June 1986. Liliane and Maurice Barrard, who had summited later that day, fell during the descent; Liliane Barrard's body was found on 19 July 1986 at the foot of the south face. [59] On July 28, 2024, Japanese climber Naoko Watanabe became the first woman to summit K2 three ...
In 2016 she summited Mount Everest from Tibet (China), making her seventh summit. [14] The president of Mount Everest Summiteers' Association, a Nepali woman and high-altitude worker Maya Sherpa also summited, but from Nepal. [14] Maya Sherpa is another record-setting Nepali woman, and she has also summited K2. [14]
Samina Baig, a 32-year-old from a remote northern village in Pakistan, was the first to hoist her country's green and white flag atop the peak of the 28,250 foot-high (8,610 meter) K2.
Vanessa O'Brien (born 1964) First British-American woman to summit K2; Cathy O'Dowd (born 1968) South Africa, first female ascent of Everest from both north and south (1999), fourth female ascent Lhotse (2000) Oh Eun-Sun (born 1966) South Korea, first Korean woman to climb Seven Summits, controversy over eight-thousanders claim [2]
They spent their last night before their summit attempt bivouacked with a tent but no sleeping bags. The Barrards, Rutkiewicz, and Parmentier all summited successfully by 11:00am on June 23, 1986. Wanda Rutkiewicz was the first female ascender of K2, a mere 30 minutes before Liliane Barrard. [3] Both women summited K2 without using supplemental ...
She summitted Dhaulagiri on October 7. Brownlee summited Annapurna on 28 April, followed by Kanchenjunga, Lhotse, and Makalu in May. In July 2022, she set on her expedition to summit Nanga Parbat, [11] [12] Broad Peak, and K2, by summitting K2 she became the youngest woman to climb the world’s second-highest peak on 28 July 2022. [13] [14] [15]
At that time both downplayed the aspect of a race between them for the first woman to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders. On 6 August 2010, Fredrik Ericsson joined Kaltenbrunner on the way to the summit of K2. Ericsson fell 1,000 metres (3,300 ft) and was killed. Kaltenbrunner, who saw Ericsson fall, aborted her summit attempt. [7]