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Kaltenbrunner calls off K2 bid

Bad weather conditions forced mountain climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner to abandon her attempt of scaling the K2 yesterday (Mon).

The Upper Austrian – who tried to subdue the 8,611-metre-high mountain located on the border of Pakistan and China with her German husband Ralf Dujmovits – said today thick clouds and massive snowfall had ruled out a continuation of the trip.

The 39-year-old bestselling author would have been the third woman in the world to reach the peak of all 14 mountains higher than 8,000 metres in the world.

Oh Eun-Sun became the first woman in the world to achieve this earlier this year, but the South Korean has been criticised by colleagues and press for always being accompanied by several Sherpa carriers and for the usage of oxygen.

Spaniard Edurne Pasaban is the first European woman to scale all the world’s 14 highest mountains. She praised Kaltenbrunner in a recent interview with Austrian magazine profil for being a technically better climber than herself, stressing that they were good friends.

This was Kaltenbrunner’s third attempt to reach the peak of the K2. She has not yet revealed when she will launch her next bid to conquer the infamously challenging mountain.

Kaltenbrunner calls off K2 bid

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