The list of alpinists who’ve climbed all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen is exceedingly small—Reinhold Messner, Jerzy Kukuczka, and Ed Viesturs among nine others—and ...
Reaching the top of K2 on her fourth attempt, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a 40-year-old Austrian alpinist who resides in Germany, has become the first woman to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter ...
SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — Austrian-born Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner was 23 years old when she reached the summit of her first 8,000-meter peak. “Already from my childhood, it was my big passion to climb ...
On 17 May Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and David Göttler reached the summit of Nuptse (7861m) via the long and difficult North Ridge Scott route. A beautiful and testing climb, far removed from the nearby ...
Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner hat es geschafft: Als erste Frau hat sie alle 14 Achttausender-Berge ohne künstlichen Sauerstoff bestiegen. Am K2 im Karakorum, dem zweithöchsten Gipfel der Welt, war sie ...