Edurne Pasaban

Edurne Pasaban Lizarribar (born 1973) is a Basque Spanish mountaineer from Tolosa in Gipuzkoa. On 17 May 2010 she became the first woman to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders, and the 21st person to do so. Her first 8,000 metre peak was Mount Everest, which she summited on 23 May 2001, and she has also completed the Seven Summits. She reached the top of her ninth eight-thousander, Broad Peak, on 12 July 2007 with the Austrian climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, and the two summited Dhaulagiri on the same day in 2008, though both downplayed any race to be the first woman to complete all fourteen. In May 2009 she climbed Kangchenjunga with Juanito Oiarzabal and the Polish climber Kinga Baranowska, becoming the first woman to climb twelve eight-thousanders.