Norway climber to climb world's 14 tallest peaks within 3 months

Kristin Harila and Tenjen Sherpa have already climbed  9 of the 14 tallest peaks in the world in only 45 days and their aim is to complete all 14 8,000-meter peaks in only 3 months! The current record is held by Nirmal Purja, a Nepal-born British citizen who scaled the 14 highest peaks in 189 days in 2019, beating the previous record of more than seven years set by a South Korean climber. Purja's climbs were later made into a popular Netflix documentary, "14 Peaks: Nothing is Impossible."

Harila, 37, is yet to climb Mount Manaslu in Nepal, which she hopes to do in the next few days, and then the five remaining peaks in Pakistan, including K2, the second highest in the world. She also reached K2 last year.



"I believe we can do it, if we do Manaslu now and the five in Pakistan, we can do in three months. So yes, three months is possible if we do Manaslu now," she said.

Kristin and Tenjen started this project by climbing Mt Shishapangma on April 26, they then scaled Mt Cho Oyu in Tibet. On May 15 they scaled Mt Makalu and climbed Kanchenjunga on May 18. On May 23 they scaled Mt Everest and Mt Lhotse followed by Mt Dhaulagiri on May 29 and Mt Annapurna on June 5.

The climbers will head for Pakistan in a couple of days to attempt to scale remaining five peaks including K2.