Oh Eun-sun | |
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![]() Oh Eun-sun meets President Lee Myung-bak | |
Born | |
Nationality | South Korean |
Occupation | Mountaineer |
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Height | 5 ft 1 in (1.55 m)[1] |
Korean name | |
Hangul | 오은선 |
Hanja | 吳銀善 |
Revised Romanization | O Eun-seon |
McCune–Reischauer | O Ŭn-sŏn |
Oh Eun-sun (Korean: 오은선; Hanja: 吳銀善, born March 5, 1966) is a South Korean mountaineer. She was the first Korean woman to climb the Seven Summits.[2] On April 27, 2010, she reached the summit of Annapurna;[3][4] upon doing so, she claimed to have climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders, which would have made her the first woman to achieve this feat.[1][5][6] However, her claim to have ascended Kangchenjunga was disputed by multiple experts.[7] Oh later admitted that she had stopped a few hundred meters before the summit of Kangchenjunga,[8] and so the Korean Alpine Federation ruled that she had not summited.[9] The mountaineering site ExplorersWeb officially considers the Basque Edurne Pasaban as the first woman to have successfully climbed all fourteen peaks.[10]
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