Oh Eun-Sun

Oh Eun-Sun (born March 5, 1966, Namwŏn, North Chŏlla province, South Korea) is a South Korean professional mountain climber whose claim to be the first woman to scale all 14 of the ‘eight-thousanders’—the world’s tallest peaks, over 26,250 feet (8,000 metres) high—was disputed as some questioned whether she had summited Kanchenjunga. Oh’s father was in the South Korean military, and the family moved often during her early childhood, eventually settling in Seoul. During high school...