Norwegian woman eye record summiting world’s 14 super peaks

• Harila is in pursuit of climbing all 14 highest peaks in the world.
• Pakistan has 5 of the 14 peaks.
• Many people summited K2 to shatter records.

After summiting Pakistan’s Broad Peak, the ninth mountain on her quest, a Norwegian woman Kristin Harila is still on track to climb the world’s 14 “super peaks” in the shortest time possible, according to her Instagram account.

Pakistan is home to five of the world’s fourteen super summits, those above 8,000 metres in height (26,246 feet). Climbing them all is considered by mountaineers to be the pinnacle of achievement.

Harila is challenging Nirmal Purja’s 2019 record of six months and six days for climbing all 14 of the Seven Summits.

Thursday, day 76 of her expedition, she climbed the twelfth-highest peak, Broad Peak, according to an Instagram post.

Officials from the Alpine Club of Pakistan were not immediately ready to confirm the 36-year-latest old’s achievement, but it comes just six days after they reported she had reached the summit of K2, the world’s second-highest peak.

“She is now descending to base camp, and then heading towards the two last mountains in the second phase of this project, Gasherbrum I and II,” the Instagram message read.

This year, a record number of climbers are attempting Pakistan’s summits, but the mountains have taken their toll, with six individuals, including four foreigners, missing and presumed dead since the season began in June.

On K2, Canadian Richard Cartier, Australian Matthew Eakin, Afghan Ali Akbar, and Pakistani Sharif Sadpara are thought dead, according to the tourism authority of Gilgit-Baltistan.

Gordon Henderson was lost while ascending Broad Peak, while Iman Karim was lost when climbing Gasherbrum II.

Officials in Pakistan do not often designate missing climbers as deceased until their bodies have been retrieved.

This year, the Alpine Club reports that over 140 people, including 20 women, scaled the 8,611-meter K2 peak in Pakistan’s Himalayas, shattering previous records.

Since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the summit in 1953, more than 6,000 individuals have topped Everest, the highest mountain in the world, since the initial ascent by Hillary and Norgay.

After reaching the summit of Gasherbrum II last week, Sanu Sherpa from Nepal became the first person to complete the double summit of all 14 super summits.

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