Kit DesLaurier Skis Seven Summits
Monday October 30, 2006
On Wednesday, October 18, extreme skier and reigning world free skiing champion, Kit DesLaurier, stood on top of Mount Everest, strapped on her skis, and became the first woman to ski from the summit of the highest peak on each continent.
DesLaurier, along with her husband Rob, summited Everest as part of a team from Berg Adventures that put all 14 team members on top of the world that day. Kit, Rob, and photographer Jimmy Chin all started down on skis but were kept from making an entire ski descent due to lack of snow in critical areas.
The trio from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, did ski the entire Lhotse Face - 5,000 vertical feet of 45-50 degrees of thick ice, which had to have been the most harrowing run of their skiing careers. Read more of Kit’s historic climb (the first husband and wife team to summit together) and descent at the Explorer’s Web.com .
Comments
Was leafing through old Skipress mag ,dreaming about skiing, when i came across item about the Berg crew and Kit climbing Everest w/her Vokles on her back .Holy S***!! 1st woman, 7 peaks !! you people ROCK ! Kevin in sunny Ontario, Can.