The news that fresh doubts are being cast on the Korean Oh Eun-Sun’s claim to have summitted Kangchenjunga has raised again the spectre of false summit claims among the high altitude mountaineering community. Miss Oh had been engaged in a race with the Austrian Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner and Spaniard Edurne Pasaban to become the first woman to climb all fourteen of the world’s mountains over 8000 metres, a race which most people, including Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner herself, had accepted she had won. We had our own unproven...
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