The reporter learned from the Tibet Autonomous Region Mountaineering Association that Chinese mountaineer Dong Hongjuan (also known as Jingxue) climbed the 8,027-meter-high Shishabangma Peak at 17:42 on April 26, and obtained the 8000ers.com certification of the international mountaineering certification website on the night of April 30, Beijing time, becoming the first woman in the world to summit all 14 peaks at an altitude of 8,000 meters.
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On the evening of the 29th, Dong Hongjuan dressed in Tibetan clothes attended the celebration banquet held for her by the Tibet Mountaineering Association in Lhasa, and accepted the summit certificate issued by the Tibet Mountaineering Association. "I started climbing out of curiosity, but when I learned there was this list of [8,000-meter climbers], I wanted Chinese names on it," she says. ”
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Shishabangma Peak is the last stop in Dong Hongjuan's plan to climb 14 peaks at an altitude of 8,000 meters. The 42-year-old Dong Hongjuan climbed Mount Everest in 2013, Cho Aoyou Peak and Gashu Bloom II in 2014, Chogori Peak, Nanga Parbat Peak and Gashubrum I Peak in 2017, Kanchenjunga Junga, Lhotse Peak and Bloat Peak in 2018, Annapurna Peak in 2021, and Makalu, Dauragiri Peak and Manaslu Peak in 2022.
Although there is no official organization or institution in the world to certify or count the summit, the statistical website operated by mountaineers 8000ers.com specially collects the summit information of 14 8,000-meter-level peaks, and its summit certification is widely recognized and authoritative in the international mountaineering community.
According to reports, some peaks have secondary peaks with altitudes close to the main peak, and some climbers will mistakenly consider climbing the secondary peak as climbing the main peak. As a result, summit certification for many climbers is controversial. In order to reach the highest point of all the peaks accurately, Dong Hongjuan repeatedly climbed Shishabangma, Manaslu, Bloat, Annapurna and Daulagiri.
According to Dong Hongjuan herself, she had already climbed Shishabangma Peak in 2018, but then found that she had climbed the Central Peak, while the real peak certified by 8000ers.com was the East Peak at 8,027 meters above sea level.
Tsering Sangzhu, chairman of the Tibet Autonomous Region Mountaineering Association, said that Dong Hongjuan's tenacious and unyielding character is the best interpretation of the mountaineering spirit and represents the strength of Chinese women.
Located in Nyalam County, Shigatse City, Tibet, Shishabangma Peak is the fourteenth highest peak in the world and the only peak located entirely in China at an altitude of more than 8,000 meters.
In the previous years, Luo Jing, a Chinese female mountaineer, had been submitted for 8000ers.com certification for climbing 13 peaks above 8,000 meters, and she climbed Shishabangma on September 29, 2018. However, Luo Jing issued a statement after descending the mountain, saying that by reviewing the video of the end of the climb and asking many parties for verification, he believed that the summit did not reach the main peak of Shishabangma Peak, but a certain ridge on the south side of the central peak at an altitude of 8,012 meters.
The world's 14 independent peaks above 8,000 meters above sea level are located in the Himalayas and Karakoram mountains, and the international mountaineering community regards the ascent of all these peaks as an achievement.
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Source/Central Broadcasting Network, Xinhua News Agency, netizen commentary/Su Lin's review/Yifan producer/Zhifei