To beat today’s record, 14 mountains – which are more than 8,000 meters high – had to be climbed in less than 189 days, just over six months. When she arrived in Nepal’s capital Kathmandu on Tuesday, Norway’s Kristin Harila announced she would do it in less than half the time: three months.
The 37 year old was on his way and had climbed eight of the fourteen peaks in 40 days.
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In the next few days, he hopes to summit Manaslu in Nepal. This 8,163 meter high mountain is the eighth highest in the world. Then five peaks await in Pakistan, including K2. It is the second highest mountain in the world, but is considered more dangerous and more difficult to climb than Mount Everest.
– I think we can manage. If we take Manaslu now and then five in Pakistan, we can do it in three months, so yes, it’s possible, said Harila, who has climbed most of the highest mountains in the world before, including Everest and K2. When he reached the top of Cho Oyu in May, he had climbed all the mountains, but was spread out over several seasons and thus not the fastest.
He started his recording business in April last year. His goal is that by September he will reach the top of all the mountains in the world that are over 8,000 meters above sea level. He still had two peaks left when he had to cancel the project because China had not allowed foreign climbers in during the pandemic.
Could break a record
Today’s record belongs to Nepali-British Nirmal Purja. In 2019, he spent 189 days climbing all of the 8,000 meter peaks, breaking the previous record, which had stood for seven years. Project Purja is also a popular documentary on Netflix.
In 1986, Italian Reinhold Messner became the first person to climb all 14 peaks – all located in the Himalayas and Karakorum mountains, which are located in the border area between Pakistan, India and China. He was also the first person to climb Everest alone, and with Peter Habeler he became the first person to reach the world’s highest peak without the use of an oxygen tank.
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