{"id":16593,"date":"2022-07-30T08:16:47","date_gmt":"2022-07-30T08:16:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16593"},"modified":"2022-07-30T08:16:49","modified_gmt":"2022-07-30T08:16:49","slug":"norwegian-woman-summits-ninth-mountain-in-pursuit-of-super-peaks-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/?p=16593&lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Norwegian woman summits ninth mountain in pursuit of &#8216;super peaks&#8217; record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Norwegian woman remains on course to climb world&#8217;s 14 &#8220;super peaks&#8221; in shortest time ever.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Pakistan is home to five of the world&#8217;s 14 super peaks \u2014&nbsp;those over 8,000 metres (26,246 feet).<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Kristin Harila is taking on Nirmal Purja&#8217;s 2019 record of six months, six days for climbing all 14.<\/strong><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity is-cnvs-separator-id-1659168929590\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">ISLAMABAD: A Norwegian woman remains on course to climb the world&#8217;s 14 &#8220;super peaks&#8221; in the shortest time ever, her Instagram account said, after she submitted Pakistan&#8217;s Broad Peak, the ninth mountain on her quest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan is home to five of the world&#8217;s 14 super peaks \u2014 those over 8,000 metres (26,246 feet). Climbing them all is considered the ultimate achievement by mountaineers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kristin Harila is taking on Nepali adventurer Nirmal Purja&#8217;s 2019 record of six months and six days for climbing all 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, day 76 of her pursuit, she scaled Broad Peak, the twelfth highest, a message on her Instagram page said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials from the Alpine Club of Pakistan were not immediately available to confirm the 36-year-old&#8217;s latest feat, but it comes just six days after they said she had summited K2, the world&#8217;s second highest peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;She is now descending to base camp, and then heading towards the two last mountains in the second phase of this project, Gasherbrum I and II,&#8221; the Instagram message read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A record number of climbers are tackling Pakistan&#8217;s peaks this year, but the mountains have taken their toll \u2014 with six people missing and feared dead since the season began in June, including four foreigners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Canadian Richard Cartier, Australian Matthew Eakin, Afghan Ali Akbar and Pakistani Sharif Sadpara are feared dead on K2, officials from the Gilgit-Baltistan tourism department said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Briton Gordon Henderson was lost climbing Broad Peak and Pakistani Iman Karim on Gasherbrum II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pakistan officials ordinarily don&#8217;t list missing climbers as dead until their bodies have been recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Records have tumbled on Pakistan&#8217;s mountains this year, according to the Alpine Club, with over 140 people summiting the 8,611-metre K2 &#8212; including 20 women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Until this year, it had been scaled just 425 times, whereas Everest &#8212; the world&#8217;s highest \u2014 has been conquered by more than 6,000 people since Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay first reached the top in 1953.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last week, Sanu Sherpa, from Nepal, became the first person to complete the double summit of all 14 super peaks after reaching the top of Gasherbrum II.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mishaal Arshad C.M Underground News Norwegian woman remains on course to climb world&#8217;s 14 &#8220;super peaks&#8221; in shortest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16597,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76,71,38,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-important-news","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","category-sports","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16598,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16593\/revisions\/16598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16597"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/undergroundnews.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}