Thursday, April 29, 2010

First Woman to Conquer 14 peaks

A South Korean mountainer became the first woman to scale the world 14th highest mountains,crawling on all fours as she reached the last summit.Oh Eun-sun(44)arrived at the final ,steep crench of annapurna in the himalayas 13 hours after she left the last camp to beat a spanish rival to the record.Her feat was broadcast live in south korea by kbs television.At the top she pulled out an top koran flag,waved and then wept before throwing up her arms and shoting victory!Annapurna was the last of 14 peaks above 26,247 feet MS Oh also tried to summit 26,545 feet above sea level - 13 yrs after she scaled her first himalayan mountain,Gasherbrum II in 1997 she scaled the everst in 2004.

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