All peaks of 8000 meters were climbed in a new record time

According to a spokeswoman for the Guinness Book of World Records, Tenjen Lama Sherpa and Kristin Harila reached their goal two weeks ago. They recently climbed Mount K2 in Pakistan. “Without the help of Mr. Tenjen and other Sherpas lending a hand, this remarkable mission would not have been successful,” said 37-year-old Harila. For them, the Himalayan country of Nepal with its eight-thousand-metre mountains has become a second home.

Criticism of record hunting: ‘Has nothing to do with alpinism’
But the Norwegian’s performance is controversial in the mountaineering world. For example, there was criticism that she did not set the record without oxygen bottles, but also that there was a lot of logistical effort – for example, approaching the base camp by helicopter – and that she moved on routes that were already known, such as the website alpin .de reported.

“Kristin Harila has accomplished in the past few weeks what I thought was impossible,” said Billi Bierling, the director of the “Himalaya Database” chronicle. “The way Kristin and her Sherpas climb the high mountains has nothing to do with mountaineering or ethics in the classic mountaineering style anymore – but it fits our time.”

Fatal accident overshadows record euphoria
The euphoria over the new record was also overshadowed by a fatal accident on K2, the second highest mountain in the world. On July 27, Pakistani mountain worker Mohammad Hassan, 27, fell short of the summit and was injured for hours at the dreaded key point, the Bottleneck Traverse.

The 27-year-old may have been pronounced dead too quickly. Because videos made by mountaineers show that the young man is still moving and other climbers are still passing him (see tweet above). Mountaineering icon Reinhold Messner sharply criticized: “Solidarity has given way to selfishness.”