Korean Woman Scales 11th of 14 Himalaya Peaks

Oh Eun-sun, 43, of Korea have moved a step closer to becoming the first woman in the world to climb the 14 peaks of the Himalaya as she successfully scaled the 8167-meter-high Dhaulagiri, the seventh highest, Thursday. This is her 11th conquest of the peaks, in 15 days after climbing of the 8,586m Kangchenjunga, the third highest on May 6. " Oh successfully climbed the seventh highest peak without oxygen," said a spokesman of mountaineering outfit maker Blackyak, she belongs to. She is competing with two others - Spaniard Edurne Pasaban, 36, and Australia's Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, 38, both of whom have scaled 12 peaks each. Oh struggled through cold wind for 12 hours from Camp 3 on 7,300 meters to foot the peak of Dhaulagiri, the spokesman said. She arrived at the base camp of Dhaulagiri on May 18, accumulating energy with Korean food, for the assault after climbing Kangchenjunga.