First woman to climb the higher 8,000ers without bottled oxygen
- Who
- Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner
- What
- First
- Where
- Nepal
- When
- 24 May 2011
The first woman to climb the higher 8,000ers without bottled oxygen is Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner (Austria), who reached the highest points of the top five mountains “alpine style” between 14 May 2001 and 24 May 2011.
Kaltenbrunner's higher 8,000er summits: Makalu (2001), Kangchenjunga (2006), Lhotse (2009), Mount Everest (2010) and K2 (2011).