First ascent of Dhaulagiri I (female)
- Who
- Lutgaarde Vivijs
- What
- First
- Where
- Nepal
- When
- 06 May 1982
The first woman to climb Dhaulagiri I (8,167 m; 26,794 ft) in the Dhaulagiri Himal, Nepal, is Lutgaarde Vivijs (Belgium), who reached the top on 6 May 1982, without the use of bottled oxygen.
Dhaulagiri I is the seventh highest mountain in the world, and the highest mountain lying within the borders of a single country. The climb - the first by a Belgian team - was made up the standard northeast ridge.