Everest & Himalaya 2010 Season’s End Chronicle, take 2: The final chapter of the women’s race.

Here goes the second take of the huge spring 2010 Everest and Himalaya spring 2010 season chronicle, by stats expert and ExplorersWeb contributor Rodrigo Granzotto Peron. Today, the lights and shadows of the tight race between Edurne Pasaban and Oh Eun-Sun for the first female 14x8000ers ascent. Everest & Himalaya 2010 Season’s end Chronicle: part [...]

Best of ExplorersWeb 2009 Awards: Miss Oh and Miss Go, Himalaya Dream Mile.

“Man could not run a mile in less than 4 minutes!” And yet Bannister did exactly that, shortly followed by hundreds. Tied with 11 mountains each, at the start of this year, Spanish Edurne Pasaban, Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Italian Nives Meroi were the three main women in place to become the first females to [...]

StatCrunch: ladies of thin air – XXIst Century women.

(MountEverest.net) Today the final part of Rodrigo Granzotto Peron’s interesting check of the Himalayan stats, focusing this time on the thin air ladies. Last week we learned that the first female 8000er summit to go down was Manaslu in 1974. And while Junko Tabei became the first woman to summit Everest in 1975, Tibetan Ms. [...]

Himalaya 2009 climbing season, Karakoram and Himalaya wrap-up /41/ – Week in Review.

Some explorers are truly testing the waters for human limits; such as the kids roaming the oceans and people like Geoff Holt, about to cross the Atlantic in a wheelchair. Last week also brought Himalayan female milestones and polar speed records; ending with the annual Turkey story for the Thanksgiving weekend! StatCrunch, take 3: ladies [...]