Today the series of 8000ers Summit Areas continue. This time with the mighty Kangchenjunga.

Today Kristin Harila summited Cho Oyu and therefore finished the 14 8K true summits in a new record time of 1 year and 5 days. The tables are updated.

It was a historical day for the mountaineers and mountain lovers, who care about true summits, but had a bitter sweet note besides. It could have been a nice competion between Naoko Watanabe from Japan and Dong Hong-Juan from China, but for some reasons Naoko could not manage to receive permit. Now Dong Hong-Juan is the first woman to have ascended all true summits of the 14 8000ers.

Anyway, Naoko Watanabe was the woman who finished the true summits for Japan as the first nation to do so when she ascended the true summit of Dhaulagiri I in 2021.

With the ascents of Kristin Harila and Dong Hong-Juan the female climbers finished the 14 for their nations as well.

If Harila also ascend Cho Oyu soon, she will be the second woman to ascend the 14 true summits and the fastest person to do so as well. Sophie Lavaud might also finish in summer with Nanga Parbat.

All relevant tables are updated.

female, nations female, total table

On October 16th, 2021 the first post monsoon ascent of Kangchenjunga after 17 years was reported. In the mean time it was established by various sources that the summit was not reached according to us by about 130 m distance and about 50 m in altitude difference. Please have a look into the explaining PDF here. The complete version with more details you can find here. The new main tables are updated with the new knowledge.

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