Alison Hargreaves

Alison Hargreaves (1962 to 1995) was a British mountaineer and alpinist. In 1995 she climbed Mount Everest solo and without supplementary oxygen or the support of a Sherpa team, and she solo climbed all of the great north faces of the Alps in a single season, a first for any climber, including the north face of the Eiger. She also climbed Ama Dablam in Nepal. In 1995 she intended to climb the three highest mountains in the world, Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga, unaided; on 13 May she became the first woman to reach the summit of Everest without Sherpas or bottled oxygen, and on 13 August she died while descending from the summit of K2.