By It looks like the dispute over whether Korean climber Oh Eun-sun was the first woman to climb the world’s 14 highest peak will continue:
The dispute over whether Korean alpinist Oh Eun-sun is the world’s first woman to conquer the 14 highest Himalayan peaks will drag on longer.Elizabeth Hawley, a former American journalist and chronicler of Himalayan expeditions, delayed her answer Monday on whether Oh scaled Kanchenjunga in May last year.
Hawley met Oh that day to discuss the suspicion raised by Oh`s rival Edurne Pasaban of Spain. Pasaban questioned whether the Korean made it to the top of the 8,586 meter-high Kanchenjunga.
Oh talked about the matter in detail and Hawley asked her whether she scaled all 14 of the mountains, to which Oh said, “Yes.” Hawley reportedly then said, “Congratulations!” [Donga Ilbo]
What I don’t understand is why didn’t she have a sherpa take a picture of her on the summit of Kanchenjunga?
9:30 pm on May 4th, 2010 1
GI,
The summit of Kanchenjunga is considered sacred by some and therefore sherpas refuse to summit it.
12:48 am on May 5th, 2010 2
Wouldn't it be easy to find satellite pictures of the mountain taken at around the time she would have reached the peak?