Nives Meroi
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Nives Meroi (born at Bonate Sotto September 17, 1961) is one of the most successful women in mountaineering on giant heights. She has been married since 1989 to Romano Benet, a climber and her partner in Himalayan mountaineering. They live in Tarvisio in the alps in northern Italy.
In August 2007, she succeeded in summiting ten of the fourteen eight thousanders. In true alpine style, all of Nives's and Romano's 8,000 m climbs have been completed without supplementary oxygen, and it has been said that "...their style of mountaineering belongs to another era..."[1] With her summit success on Mount Everest in 2007, Nives has ten 8,000 m summits, the same number as Edurne Pasaban. Only Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, with eleven, has more summits.[2]
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[edit] Current Expedition
January/February 2008
In early 2008, Nives, Romano, and climbing partner, Luca Vuerich, attempted an impressively ambitious winter attempt on Makalu. Hurricane winds destroyed their base camp, forcing the team to evacuate.[3] Nives suffered a broken leg in the process and is currently in Italy recovering from leg surgery.
[edit] Chronology of her expeditions and successes
- 2007 summit of Mount Everest, first summit success of an italian woman without bottled oxygen
- 2006 summit of K2 (first italian woman)
- 2006 summit of Dhaulagiri
- 2004 summit of Lhotse
- 2003 she is the first woman who succeeds in a triple traverse over the three summits of Gasherbrum I
- 1999 summit of Cho Oyu
- 1999 summit of Shisha Pangma
- 1998 first summit of the 8000s, Nanga Parbat
- 1996 first attempt on Mount Everest, missed
- 1994 on K2, she gained 8000 m
Nives is only the fourth woman currently alive that has climbed K2 (the others being Edurne Pasaban, Eun-Sun Oh and Yuka Komatsu).[4]
[edit] References
- ^ Makalu Winter Expedition 2008.
- ^ List with female climbers with more than 4 8000ers, www.8000ers.com.
- ^ Winter Makalu: All lost, team evacuates.
- ^ K2 Climbing Statistics.
