Oh Eun-sun

In this Korean name, the family name is Oh.
Oh Eun-sun
Oh Eun-sun meets President Lee Myung-bak
Born (1966-03-05) March 5, 1966 (age 58)
Namwon, South Korea
NationalitySouth Korean
OccupationMountaineer
Known for
Height5 ft 1 in (1.55 m)[1]
Korean name
Hangul
오은선
Hanja
吳銀善
Revised RomanizationO Eun-seon
McCune–ReischauerO 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]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference NY Times First was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Cite error: The named reference Korea Times was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  3. ^ Complete ascent - fatalities statistics of all 14 main 8000ers
  4. ^ "Annapurna I". 8000ers.com. Retrieved 2011-06-26.
  5. ^ Cite error: The named reference 8000ers.com was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference ExplorersWeb first was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Joanna Jolly; Stephen Mulvey (27 August 2010). "New doubts over Korean Oh Eun-Sun's climbing record". BBC News. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  8. ^ The real truth is that the Kanchenjunga summit has no rock, but five or ten meters beside it (below it?) is a lot of rock. When I came there, bad weather, a change of weather, I didn't do the real point. I didn't do the real point, but my point is also on the top.
  9. ^ Korean Alpine Federation Rules that Oh Eun-Sun Did Not Climb Kangchenjunga
  10. ^ ExWeb Oh Eun-Sun report, final: Edurne Pasaban takes the throne, ExplorersWeb, Dec 10, 2010