{"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><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\u2019s 14 \u201csuper peaks\u201d in shortest time ever.<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Pakistan is home to five of the world\u2019s 14 super peaks \u2014\u00a0those over 8,000 metres (26,246 feet).<\/strong><\/li><li><strong>Kristin Harila is taking on Nirmal Purja\u2019s 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>ISLAMABAD: A Norwegian woman remains on course to climb the world\u2019s 14 \u201csuper peaks\u201d in the shortest time ever, her Instagram account said, after she submitted Pakistan\u2019s Broad Peak, the ninth mountain on her quest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan is home to five of the world\u2019s 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>Kristin Harila is taking on Nepali adventurer Nirmal Purja\u2019s 2019 record of six months and six days for climbing all 14.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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>Officials from the Alpine Club of Pakistan were not immediately available to confirm the 36-year-old\u2019s latest feat, but it comes just six days after they said she had summited K2, the world\u2019s second highest peak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cShe 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,\u201d the Instagram message read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A record number of climbers are tackling Pakistan\u2019s 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>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>Briton Gordon Henderson was lost climbing Broad Peak and Pakistani Iman Karim on Gasherbrum II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pakistan officials ordinarily don\u2019t list missing climbers as dead until their bodies have been recovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Records have tumbled on Pakistan\u2019s mountains this year, according to the Alpine Club, with over 140 people summiting the 8,611-metre K2 \u2014 including 20 women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until this year, it had been scaled just 425 times, whereas Everest \u2014 the world\u2019s 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>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\u2019s 14 \u201csuper peaks\u201d 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":{"0":"post-16593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-important-news","8":"category-latest-news","9":"category-pakistan","10":"category-sports","11":"cs-entry","12":"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}]}}