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Nepalese and Norwegian climb all eight-thousanders
The Himalayan country of Nepal with its eight-thousander mountains has become a second home for mountaineer Kristin Harila. photo
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Tenjen Lama Sherpa and Kristin Harila set a record for mountaineering. But there are also criticisms of the performance.
A Nepalese and a Norwegian all have 14 Climbed eight-thousanders in record time. It took you 92 days, as a spokeswoman for the Guinness Book of Records (Guinness World Records) told the German Press Agency. Tenjen Lama Sherpa and Kristin Harila set the record two weeks ago. Most recently, they climbed Mount K2 in Pakistan.
With their mountaineering, the two surpassed the previous record set by Nepalese Nirmal Purja in 2019, which took twice as long to climb, according to the Nepal Mountaineering Association.
“Without the help of Mr. Tenjen and other Sherpas who helped out, this remarkable mission would not have been successful,” said Harila, 37. For them, the Himalayan country of Nepal with its eight-thousander mountains has become a second home.
criticism of performance
But the Norwegian’s performance is controversial in the mountaineering scene. For example, there was criticism that she did not set the record without but with bottled oxygen, as well as the fact that there was a great deal of logistical effort – for example with approaches to the base camp by helicopter – and that she was moving on routes that were already known, such as the website “Alpin.de” reported.
“Kristin Harila has achieved what I thought was impossible in the past few weeks,” said Billi Bierling, the director of the “Himalayan Database” chronicle. “The way Kristin and her Sherpas climb the high mountains no longer has anything to do with alpinism or ethics in the classic mountaineering style – but it fits our time.”