Go Mi-young (Korean: 고미영; Hanja: 高美英 : March 3, 1967 – July 11, 2009) was a South Korean female mountaineer.
Go Mi-young | |
|---|---|
| Born | Go Mi-young July 3, 1967 Buan, South Korea |
| Died | July 12, 2009 (aged 42) Nanga Parbat, Pakistan |
| Occupation | Mountaineer |
| Known for | Participated in a competition to become the first woman to climb eight-thousanders |
| Korean name | |
| Hangul | 고미영 |
| Hanja | 高美英 |
| Revised Romanization | Go Miyeong |
| McCune–Reischauer | Go Miyŏng |
Together with the Korean mountaineer Jae-Soo Kim, she became one of the first climbers to summit three 8,000-metre peaks in a single season when they climbed Makalu, Kangchenjunga, and Dhaulagiri in six weeks.[1] In 2007, she summited Everest.[2] On July 11, 2009, after reaching the top of Nanga Parbat, she fell off a cliff on the descent in bad weather and was later found dead.[1] At the time of her death, she was in the quest to become the first woman to scale the world's 14 highest peaks (the eight-thousanders), competing against the Korean climber Oh Eun-sun and Basque Spanish climber Edurne Pasaban, who later achieved this goal.[3][4]
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