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Two of NG’s biggest awards were presented last night to one explorer who reached the bottom of the ocean, and another who stood at the top of the world.
Posted by Reaching the top of K2 on her fourth attempt, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, a 40-year-old Austrian alpinist who resides in Germany, has become the first woman to summit all 14 of the world’s 8,000-meter peaks without using supplementary oxygen, National Geographic confirmed today.
