First woman climbs world’s 14 highest peaks

SOUTH Korean climber Oh Eun-sun claimed the record as the first woman to summit all 14 of the world’s peaks over 8,000 metres when she scaled Mount Annapurna in Nepal yesterday.

Oh, 44, reached the Annapurna summit, the world’s 10th highest at 8,091 metre (26,545 feet), at 0918 GMT with three sherpa climbers and two members of Korea’s KBS Television, said Song Hea-kyoung, an official of the Korean Trek and Expedition, which provided the logistics for her record attempt.

“With this she has climbed all 14 highest peaks,” Song said of Oh.