In a recent article on OUTDOORSmagic, we suggested, okay, we said,that Annabelle Bond had become the youngest woman to complete theSeven Summits challenge and climb the highest peak on everycontinent.In fact Rebecca Stephens, who completed

Thisweekend's Sunday Times carried an extensive interview with Everestsummiteer and Seven Summits club member Annabelle Bond.In the interview with David Walsh, Ms Bond - inexplicably theblonde object of numerous OM forum crushes - talks about

Hall on Everest in 1996 - Ms Bondreached the summit of Denali in Alaska at 6194 metres. Her success makes Annabelle the 100th member of the elusive 7Summit club, along with being the third youngest woman to complete them andin a record time for a woman

in conjunction with sponsor HSBC, is to set up anAnnabelle Bond Education Trust. This is in conjunction with the Edmund Hilary Education Trust which will pay for the children of her seven high altitude Sherpas to be educated up to the age of 18. It's her way

classic 'poor little rich girl', however in the interview shestresses that although her father is the chairman of HSBC Bank, heoffered moral rather than financial support and the £100,000 ofsponsorship needed was raised off her own bat.It's an interesting

is climbing alone You can see film fromthe 2001 expedition in streaming video on thisBBC page.Last but not least as far as some of OM's male membership isconcerned, British socialite and blonde ice-axe wielding pin-upAnnabelle Bond is, of course, attempting

that Scottish island thing on telly, Charley Boorman – discovered by Ewan McGregor and now a full-time riding about media pro – and Benedict Allen. Also present is blonde seven summits climber Annabelle Bond.Head and shoulders above the rest however, is Doug

conditions making the finalmountain in his Challenge 8000 quest even tougher than expected. Hepulled through though to summiton 30 May and become the first Brit up all 14 8,000ers. A topachievement and one matched by only 12 other climbers.Despite it being