Oh Eun-sun

Oh Eun-sun
Oh Eun-sun meeting with President Lee Myung-bak
Born (1966-03-05) March 5, 1966
OccupationMountaineer
Known forFirst South Korean woman to climb the Seven Summits
Height5 ft 1 in (1.55 m)
Korean name
Hangul
오은선
Hanja
吳銀善
RRO Eunseon
MRO Ŭnsŏn

Oh Eun-sun (Korean오은선; Hanja吳銀善, born March 5, 1966) is a South Korean mountaineer. She was the first South Korean woman to climb the Seven Summits. On April 27, 2010, she reached the summit of Annapurna; upon doing so, she claimed to have climbed all fourteen eight-thousanders, which would have made her the first woman to achieve this feat. However, her claim to have ascended Kangchenjunga was disputed by multiple experts. Oh later admitted that she had stopped a few hundred meters before the summit of Kangchenjunga, and so the Korean Alpine Federation ruled that she had not summited. The mountaineering site ExplorersWeb officially considers the Basque Edurne Pasaban as the first woman to have successfully climbed all fourteen peaks.