Kristin Harila

Kristin Harila
Harila in 2023
Personal information
NationalityNorwegian
Born (1986-03-28) 28 March 1986 (age 39)
Vestre Jakobselv, Vadsø Municipality, Norway
Websitewww.kristinharila.com
Climbing career
Major ascentsFastest to climb all 14 eight-thousanders in 92 days.[1][2][3][4] Fastest to climb Everest and Lhotse by a woman in 8 hours.[5][6]

Kristin Harila (born 28 March 1986)[7] is a Norwegian-Northern Saami[8][9][10] mountaineer and former cross-country skier. During 2022–2023, she set multiple speed records for the ascent of all 14 eight-thousanders with Tenjen Sherpa.[11][12] 27 July 2023 she and her climbing-partner Tenjen set the new world record climbing all the 14 8000m peaks in 92 days. The previous record was held by Nirmal Purja, who summited the mountains in 6 months and 6 days. [13]

Climbing career

First record attempt (2022)

In April 2022 Harila started her first attempt to climb the 14 highest peaks in the world. She started the attempt 28 April by summiting Annapurna. [14]

Mount Everest and Lhotse were the fourth and fifth mountains in her attempt. On 22 May she summited both tops, setting a new record in moving between the tops in less than 8,5 hours. [15]

22.september she summited the 12th mountain in the attempt, Manaslu. With over 5 weeks left to set a new world record the attempt was halted by covid-19 restrictions.[16]

During the attempt Kristin also set the world record in climbing the worlds 5 highest mountains in 69 days, Mount Everest, K2, Kanchenjunga, Lhotse and Makalu. [17]

World record (2023)

Spring 2023 Harila decided to make another attempt at breaking Nirmal Purja’s record. During the expedition a crucial part of her team was her climbing partner Tenjen Lama Sherpa. [18] They share the world record in climbing all the 14 highest peaks mountains in the world in 92 days. [19]

The 26th of April 2023 they summited Shishepangma marking the start of her 2nd attempt. [20]

During the expedition Harila and her team summited Mount Everest and Lhotse on the same day, beating her own record from the year before, this time moving between the two tops in approximatley 8 hours. [21]

27 July 2023 Harila and Tenjen summited K2, the 14th and final mountain of the expedition. [22]

Accident on K2

When ascending K2 in 2023, Harila and her team met a man hanging upsidedown in the bottleneck-section of the mountain in the middle of the night. He was a porter for Lela Peak Expeditions a Pakistani guiding company, and was not a part of Harila’s team. They spent hours trying to save him, but the conditions were too hard. After the event there’s been a lot of false accusations. Pakistani governement filed a report saying that no one were to blame for the accident, but Lela Peak Expeditions were banned from operating in Pakistan for 2 years following the event. [23]

Lama Sherpa Foundation

7 October 2023 several climbers were caught in an avalanche on Shishepangma in China. It was later confirmed the same night that Tenjen Lama Sherpa had passed in the avalanche. Kristin Harila established The Lama Sherpa Foundation in memory of her climbing-partner. The goal of the foundation is to continue working for the causes Tenjen were passionate about, such as: awarness and recourses to porters, guides, cooks and other workers in the Himalayas that work on mountaineering expeditions. [24]

Other activities

As a cross-country skier, Harila placed 24th and 25th in the Norwegian championships in 2006. She represented the club IL Polarstjernen.[11]

Awards

  • European Adventurer of the Year 2022.[25][26]

Expeditions

2015

2019

2020

2021

2022

2023

  • Shishapangma 8,027m – 26 April 2023.[43]
  • Cho Oyu 8,188m – 3 May 2023[44]
  • Makalu 8,481m – 13 May 2023[45][46]
  • Kangchenjunga 8,586m – 18 May 2023[47][48]
  • Mount Everest 8,848m – 23 May 2023[49]
  • Lhotse 8,516m – 23 May 2023 – World record for fastest woman to summit Everest and Lhotse, 8 hours.[49]
  • Dhaulagiri I 8,167m – 29 May 2023[50]
  • Annapurna I 8,091m – 5 June 2023[51][52]
  • Manaslu 8,163m – 10 June 2023[53][54]
  • Nanga Parbat 8,126m – 26 June 2023[55]
  • Gasherbrum II 8,035m – 15 July 2023[56]
  • Gasherbrum I 8,080m – 18 July 2023[57][58]
  • Broad Peak 8,051m – 23 July 2023[59]
  • K2 8,611m – 27 July 2023[1][2]

2024

2025

  • Vinson – 4 January 2025 [61]
  • Carstensz Pyramid – 21 October 2025 [62]

See also

  • Nirmal Purja, a previous speed record-holder for ascents of all 14 eight-thousanders
  • Kim Chang-ho (climber), a previous holder of world speed record for all 14 eight-thousanders

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