Oh Eun-Sun becomes the first woman to successfully scale all of the world's 14 highest peaks.

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An avalanche on Mount Nasu in Japan's Tochigi Prefecture, kills at least eight schoolchildren while the students were on a mountaineering excursion. There are three students and three teachers missing.
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The 2009 ascent of Kangchenjunga by Korean climber Oh Eun-sun, aiming to be the first woman to climb the 14 highest peaks on Earth, is declared "disputed" by Himalayan climbing records arbiter, Elizabeth Hawle.
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2010-04-27

Oh Eun-Sun

Oh Eun-Sun becomes the first woman to successfully scale all of the world's 14 highest peaks.

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