Catalonian Female Climber Aiming For K2
Ed Douglas interviews Spanish climber Araceli Segarra for the Observer as she prepares to head for the world's second highest mountain - no living woman has summited...
If you didn't get last Sunday's Observer you probably won't have seen their interview with Catalonian climber (and model) Araceli Segarra. But seeing as the Observer has thoughtfully placed all its content online we can still tell you about it, and it's worth a look.
Segarra has returned to K2 for her third attempt on the mountain, and she hopes to become only the sixth woman to summit. If she succeeds and descends safely, she'll be the only one of the six still alive.
Besides an impressive list of achievements, Segarra's website details her ambition to be the first woman to summit Everest, K2 and Kangchenjunga, a project she calls 'Top 3', for obvious reasons. She managed Everest in 1996 when she was just 26, and working on the IMAX film 'Everest', and has already made two attempts on K2 and one on Kanchenjunga.
Observer interviewer Ed Douglas also talked to Alison Hargreaves before her successful but fateful ascent in 1995, so it's perhaps unsurprising that history casts something of a sobering shadow over the piece.
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