Annabelle Bond Breaks Seven Summits Record
British mountaineer Annabelle Bond has become the fastest woman to summit the highest peak on every continent with success on Denali yesterday. Well done Annabelle :-)
Annabelle Bond, who first came to our attention a year ago with
her successful Everest climb, today entered the mountaineering record
books as the thrid youngest and fastest woman to complete the Seven
Summits.
 Her
Mount Everest climb was just the first step for Annabelle on an
attempt to complete the arduous "Seven Summits", which involves
climbing the highest mountain on every continent. Late last night (UK
time) along with Guy Cotter - who took over Adventure Consultants
after the tragic deathe of Rob Hall on Everest in 1996 - Ms Bond
reached the summit of Denali in Alaska at 6194 metres.
Her success makes Annabelle the 100th member of the elusive 7
Summit club, along with being the third youngest woman to complete them and
in a record time for a woman too. The news of the record-breaking
achievements broke late last night in a call from Guy Cotter, who
also joins the Seven Summit club.
After completing Mount Everest last year Ms Bond went on to top
out on Elbrus (5642m), Kilimanjaro (5895m),Kosciouszco (2228m),
Vinson (4897m) and Aconcagua (6962m) before turning to Denali (or
Mount McKinley to the Americans). Along the way she even managed to
fit in a friends wedding on the summit of Mount Vinson in
Antarctica. Vinson prepared the team well for Denali where the
temperatures regularly hit -40 C and bad weather delayed the party
for several days at high camp.
We'd like to congratulate Annabelle on her success and wish her
well for the future, she's become a bit of a cult figure on the OM
forum, but as her mountaineering record shows, she's not just a
pretty face.
Annabelle's Seven Summits record bid has been in order to
highlight and raise money for the Eve Ovarian Cancer charity appeal.
Further details will be available soon on www.annabellebond.com
or check out our previous articles below.
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Ms Bond has now completed 6 of the 7 Summits. With the political situation in Irian Jaya she is doing the Kosciouszko variant of the 7 summits, and has now completed Everest, Kilimanjaro,Elbrus, Vinson, Kosciouszko and Aconcagua. At the moment she is mid way up Denali, and has spent the last few days ferrying equipment up to Camp 2. She is still on target to complete the 7 summits in a single calendar year.
Posted: 04/05/2005 at 10:18
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