Edurne Pasaban K2
Everything makes more sense on a mountain. There’s a purity to it, a finality. You climb to the top and live to tell about it, or you don’t.
Edurne Pasaban is a Basque Spanish mountaineer. On May 17, 2010, she became the first woman to climb all 14 of the eight-thousanders in the World.
Everything makes more sense on a mountain. There’s a purity to it, a finality. You climb to the top and live to tell about it, or you don’t. And descents can be more fatal than the push to the summit. Edurne Pasaban knows this all too well. Six years ago, on her way off of 28,251-foot K2, Pasabán lost pieces of her big toes to frostbite.
On her K2 ascent, she spent 24 hours above 8,000 meters, which can be deadly.
