Kristin Harila of Norway summited Everest at 8:45 am today. She retreated to Camp 4, rested a while, and at 5:55 pm local time, she has just summited Lhotse.
Pasdawa and Dawa Wongchu Sherpa accompanied her. The three are currently making their way back down to Base Camp.
There will be no rest for Harila afterward. Tomorrow, she’ll helicopter to Makalu Base Camp and start running up again.
“All going well, she’ll reach the summit on May 24,” Lakpa Sherpa of 8K Expeditions told ExplorersWeb.
Harila summited Kangchenjunga last week with Oncel Dawa Sherpa and Pasdawa Sherpa. Photo: Kristin Harila
Nirmal Purja stunned the world by summiting six 8,000’ers in 31 days. Now, Harila looks poised to beat that mark. She has already summited five 8,000’ers in 24 days.
This season, she has already summited Annapurna (on April 28), Dhaulagiri, and Kangchenjunga. If the Makalu planning works, she could get done with those six Nepal 8,000’ers in 26 days.
This also suggests that what Purja started as a once-in-a-lifetime challenge has become a new trend in the Himalaya.
The physical strain of such a schedule is hard to imagine. But according to Lakpa, Harila wants to send the message that “women can do it too”.
“She is good,” Lakpa Sherpa said about Harila’s physical condition. “The problem may be the weather. it is getting worse.”
This speed thing is just disrespectful. Peak bagging, and nothing else. I bet thye don’t even know which mountain they are climbing. Nims’ Project Possible was a totally different thing, though: it had never been done,it will never be done again.
Wonder of China will give them permits to climb cho oju and shishapangma this year..
They won’t.
The speed thing is fine. What is “disrespectful” (cheating) is using, number one, is oxygen, two, fixed ropes, three, use of aircraft on the mountain. If She and others did not use these things, there would be few speed records and most would have zero chance of reaching the summits. As it should be.
Exactly
and four the : You forgot to list the sherpa!!!
lol that made my day 😀
although it’s just a joke…
it was a joke, right ?
I think the comment referred to the choppered in and Sherpa served athlete probably being unable to triangulate position on a contour map or negotiate the hike from jiri, let alone tumlingtar.
Some how it’s true, not joke
Absolutly true, he had done a lot of things too. Like saving some mountainers life and making the path and leading the team…
i know Kristin personally. what u said can’t be furthest from the truth . how could you judge someone you don’t even know ? i climbed with this incredible woman before, and have witnessed her vast knowledge ,and immense physical prowess first hand .
Go Kristin! records a there to be broken! I guess she has it planned all well in her head
Climb on
I hope these speed records are not being confused with real alpinism. Take any world class endurance athlete, like the sub 2h marathon guy. Let him acclimatize properly, put him in warm clothes, teach him how to walk on crampons and how to pull on a rope, maybe how to climb a latter. Wait for the right weather window. Then fly him to an 8000er, attach him to the fixed rope and tell him to just put one foot in front of the other until he reaches the summit. Then let him get back down, rest, get in the heli,… Read more »