Edurne Pasaban (born August 1, 1973) is a Spanishmountaineer. She is the second woman, after Wanda Rutkiewicz, that has climbed eight of the fourteen eight-thousanders in the world: August 1 is the 213th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (214th in leap years), with 152 days remaining. ... 1973 (MCMLXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday. ... Mountaineering is an umbrella term that can variously be used to describe the actions of climbing, hillwalking and scrambling. ... Wanda Rutkiewicz was born on February 2, 1943 in Plungiany, Poland (today Lithuania). ... Cho Oyu, Lhotse, Makalu and Mount Everest as seen from the International Space Station. ...
She was born in Tolosa (Gipuzkoa, Spain). Nanga Parbat (also known as Nangaparbat Peak or Diamir) is the 9th highest mountain on Earth and the 2nd highest in Pakistan. ... For other uses, see K2 (disambiguation). ... Gasherbrum I (also known as Hidden Peak or K5) is the eleventh highest peak on Earth. ... Gasherbrum II (also known as K4) is the thirteenth highest mountain on Earth. ... Lhotse is the fourth highest mountain on Earth and is connected to Mount Everest via the South Col. ... Cho Oyu (or Cho Oyo or Mt. ... Makalu is the fifth highest mountain in the world and is located 22 km (14 mi) east of Mount Everest. ... Everest redirects here. ... Tolosa can mean several things: Tolosa is the Latin and Occitan name for the town of Toulouse, France. ... Guipúzcoa province Guipúzcoa (Basque Gipuzkoa, Spanish Guipúzcoa, in English sometimes as Guipuscoa) is a province of northern Spain, in the northeastern part of the autonomous community of the Basque Country. ...
She is only the third woman currently alive that has climbed K2 (the others being Nives Meroi and Yuka Komatsu). She partially lost several toes to frostbite. She is currently attempting a post-monsoon-season summit of Shisha Pangma.
Edurne did not reach the summit alone, and was aided in her climb by experienced mountaineers such as Iván Vallejo, Josu Bereziartua and Silvio Mondinelli.
EdurnePasaban was born in Tolosa (Guipúzcoa) in 1973 and developed a taste for climbing at an early age due to excursions with her parents.
Edurnes main rival is the Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a woman who has also shown that she is not going to rest on her laurels.
Department of Up And Comers--Edurne Pasaban: TWC posted on Spaniard Edurne, 30, last week after she summitted K2 in miserable conditions, and became the only woman still living to have been to the top (yes, K2 really is a bitch to climb).
Edurne calls them not that "important." Her partner on the K2 climb--Juanito Oiarzabal--is losing them all, and wants Edurne to go to Aconcagua with him in January to test their imminently toeless feet together.
In fact, Edurne has bagged more big mountains than any woman on the face of the planet, so I clicked over to ExWeb's profile of her.
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