Spanish mountaineer Edurne Pasaban came closer to achieving her goal of becoming the first woman to climb the world’s 14 highest peaks after climbing mount Makalu on the border between Nepal and China, Spanish media reported.
The 35-year-old reached the top of the mountain, the world’s fifth-highest, without the aid of oxygen along with a group of Spanish climbers, the Spanish daily newspapers El Mundo and Marca reported.
She became only the second woman to climb 11 peaks above 8,000m after Austria’s Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, who is also seeking to become the first female to ascend all 14 “eight-thousanders.”
Pasaban, who began her attempt to make history in 2001, still must climb Annapurna, Kangchenjunga and Shisi Pangma to meet her goal. She has already scaled the world’s two highest mountains, Everest and K2.
An Italian, Reinhold Messner, became the first man to climb all 14 summits in 1986.
The 14 mountains are all located in the Himalayan and Karakoram mountain ranges in Asia. (AFP)
西班牙媒體報導，西班牙登山家艾杜蘭．帕薩邦登上尼泊爾和中國邊界的馬卡魯峰後，又離她成為首位征服全球前十四座高峰的女性這個夢想更進一步。
西班牙日報《世界報》和《馬卡報》報導，三十五歲的帕薩邦和一組西班牙登山隊，不靠氧氣瓶而攀登上全世界第五高峰。
她成為全球唯二征服十一座八千公尺以上高峰的女性之一；前一位是奧地利的葛琳德．凱頓布魯娜，她也在爭取成為首位征服全球前十四座「八千公尺」高峰的女登山家。
帕薩邦自二ＯＯ一年起開始挑戰世界紀錄，目前她仍需征服安娜普娜峰、康城章加峰和希夏帕馬峰，才能達成目標。她已經征服全世界最高的兩座高峰：聖母峰和K2。
一九八六年，義大利的萊因霍爾德．梅斯納成為首位征服前十四高峰的男子。這十四座山峰都坐落在亞洲的喜瑪拉雅山脈和喀喇崑崙山脈間。
（法新社�翻譯：袁星塵）
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