Edurne Pasaban’s favourite place in Nepal
Posted in: Blog on May 23rd, 2010 | Comments: none
Edurne Pasaban climber of all 14 8000m peaks, loves Nepal's Manaslu region
Edurne Pasaban has just climbed all 14 8000m peaks and is the second woman in the world to do so. There has been just a little controversy, given that the first woman to do, Oh Eun-sun of South Korea, so far has not produced photographic evidence of herself on the summit of Kanchenjunga.
Still I prefer Kurt Diemberger’s approach to climbing, for the aesthetic pleasure of it rather than for competition or records, which he called “a disease of our times”.
Still, records aside, Pasaban shared, “the best thing Nepal has is their people and then mountains and I love both.”
And to have climbed all 14 8000m peaks means she has climbed eight in Nepal* and thus trekked considerably.
Asked where her favourite place in Nepal was, she answered “I think Manaslu!”
If you are wondering where to go on your trekking vacation in Nepal, there is some advice from someone who has travelled widely and spent a good deal of her life in the mountains.
RB
* Everest 8,850m, Kangchenjunga 8,586m, Lhotse 8,516m, Makalu 8,463m, Cho-Oyu 8,201m, Dhaulagiri 8,167m, Manaslu 8,156m, Annapurna 8,091m
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Tags: 8000m, kanchenjunga, manaslu, mountaineering
