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Basque Edurne Pasaban keeps on trying to complete fourteen 8,000s, or 8,000-metre summits to become the first woman in the world to do so. The mountaineer from Tolosa, Gipuzkoa, just needs to get to Shisha Pangma (8,027 metres, Tibet-China) and Annapurna (8,091, Nepal) to succeed in an adventure she is starting on Thursday, March 4th, as she explained Tuesday in a press conference in Madrid.

The objective is to reach both summits before three months, though the Basque is not the only one woman involved in this challenge: Austrian Gerlinde Kartelbrunner has other two summits left, Everest and K2, while Korean Oh Eun Sun must reach the Annapurna.

Edurne Pasaban will be accompanied by Alex Txikon, Asier Izaguirre, Ferrán Latorre and the staff of the public Spanish TV programme Al filo de lo imposible/ The Edge of the Impossible, focused on these kind of expeditions.