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Triumph & Tragedy On Record-Breaking 14-Peaks Summit | Kristin Harila #378

Posted on 25 September 202325 September 2023 by Chris Thrall

Triumph & Tragedy On Record-Breaking 14-Peaks Summit, features Kristin Harila who smashed the world record 14 Peaks challenge.

Triumph & Tragedy On Record-Breaking 14-Peaks Summit

Triumph & Tragedy On Record Breaking 14 Peaks Summit, features Kristin Harila. Kristin and Tenjen Sherpa, a guide from Seven Summit Treks, established a new record by summiting all 14 true geographic summits in just 92 days. In the process, Kristin and Tenjen broke multiple records, including 26 eight-thousander summits. Plus attaining the fastest Everest and Lhotse summits by a female.

Transcript from ‘Triumph & Tragedy On Record-Breaking 14-Peaks Summit’ podcast

Kristin – I saw that he’d managed to get to the top camp without the right equipment. I don’t judge but that was just naivety on his part. We never met him before and we suddenly saw one person hanging upside down. When we first saw him, we didn’t know if it was a man, woman, porter, Sherpa or a climber. We just saw that it was a person that needed help and the person was without a down suit and gloves. Maybe they fell off without oxygen and was hanging in a position that was very unnatural. So what had happened before, we don’t know. We know for sure that if he’d have been in our team, we would never have let him up without down suit and oxygen.