It seems, that there is no hope for Hungarian climber László Várkonyi on Everest anymore. Dávid Klein stated on expeditions.hu , what sadly happened between the North Col and Advanced Base Camp.

László (53) ascended Shisha Pangma in 1987 and Cho Oyu in 1990.

Before Oh Eun-Sun finished the 14, also Piotr Pustelnik stood on the top of Annapurna I and finished the 14 himself after several attempts in the past. He is the 20th person with all 14 8000ers, as he summited about 75 minutes before Miss Oh. Also Kinga Baranowska (now 7), Carlos Pauner (9), Juanito Oiarzabal and Tolo Calafat summited and several more as well. 

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Korean sites published the success of Oh Eun-Sun on Annapurna I today. Now she's celebrating being the first lady climber, who ascended all 14 8000ers.

Congratulations!

The tables will be updated as soon as possible! 

Korean Times

It was not meant to be a „race“ between Edurne Pasaban, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Nives Meroi two years ago. But since the Korean ladies Oh Eun-Sun and Go Mi-Sun climbed one 8000er after the other, everything has changed. Now Edurne Pasaban and Oh Eun-Sun have thirteen of the fourteen each and Miss Oh could finish the “race” on Annapurna within the next days.

Since quite a while some doubts were discussed among climbers especially concerning the ascent in stormy weather on Kangchenjunga last year, but nobody wanted to talk about it in public. But now Ferran Latorre published his doubts, after one Sherpa climber told Edurne Pasaban just recently, that he would know, that they did not go to the summit. After a long conversation between Elizabeth Hawley and Edurne Pasaban it’s now up to Miss Hawley to clear it in detail. At the moment the summit is marked as ”disputed”. She will ask the three Sherpa climbers again and also Miss Oh after her return from Annapurna. It is possible, that it might be marked as “unrecognized”, when all facts are finally cleared.

The achievement to be the first woman on all 14 8000ers is a big one and it should be cleared exactly, if there are reasonable doubts.

In the mean time Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is attempting the North Face of Everest with her husband Ralf Dujmovits without bottled oxygen.

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