Nives Meroi

Nives Meroi (born 1961) is an Italian mountaineer from Bonate Sotto who, on 11 May 2017, completed the ascent of all 14 eight-thousanders in alpine style and without supplemental oxygen. Her first eight-thousander was Nanga Parbat in 1998, and in 2003 she became the first woman to climb all three eight-thousanders of the Gasherbrum massif, Gasherbrum I, Gasherbrum II and Broad Peak, in one season within 20 days. In 2006 she was the first Italian woman on K2, and in 2007 she summited Mount Everest, the first Italian woman to do so without bottled oxygen. She climbs with her husband Romano Benet, never using sherpas, wrote books about their expeditions to Kangchenjunga and Annapurna, and lives in Tarvisio in northern Italy.