26 Apr Annapurna 14th 8000er for Abele Blanc

Today at 1.00 PM local time, Italian mountaineeer Abele Blanc – Alpine Guide from Aosta – completed the 14x 8000ers serie, topping out Annapurna. Blanc is the 3rd Italian to climb all the 8000ers without suplementary O2, after Reinhold Messner and Silvio Mondinelli.
Source: Ansa and Wikipedia.org




Order
accomplished
All without
O2 (order)
Name
Period
born
at age
Nationality


1
1
Reinhold Messner
1970–1986
1944
42
Italian


2
Jerzy Kukuczka
1979–1987
1948
39
Polish


3
2
Erhard Loretan
1982–1995
1959
36
Swiss


4
[10]
Carlos Carsolio
1985–1996
1962
33
Mexican


5
Krzysztof Wielicki
1980–1996
1950
46
Polish


6
3
Juanito Oiarzabal
1985–1999
1956
43
Spanish


7
Sergio Martini
1983–2000
1949
51
Italian


8
Park Young-Seok
1993–2001
1963
38
Korean


9
Um Hong-Gil
1988–2001
1960[11]
40
Korean


10
4
Alberto Iñurrategi
1991-2002[12]
1968
33
Spanish


11
Han Wang-Yong
1994–2003
1966
37
Korean


12
5[13]
Ed Viesturs
1989–2005
1959
46
American


13
6[14][15][16]
Silvio Mondinelli
1993–2007
1958
49
Italian


14
7[17]
Ivan Vallejo
1997–2008
1959
49
Ecuador


15
8 [18]
Denis Urubko
2000–2009
1973
35
Kazakhstan


16
Ralf Dujmovits
1990–2009
1961[19]
47
German


17
9
Veikka Gustafsson
1993–2009
1968
41
Finnish


18 [20]
Andrew Lock
1993–2009
1961[21]
48
Australian


19
10
João Garcia
1993–2010
1967
43
Portuguese


20 [22]
Piotr Pustelnik
1990–2010
1951
58
Polish


21 [23]
Edurne Pasaban
2001–2010
1973
36
Spanish


22 [24]
11
Abele Blanc
1982–2011
1954
56
Italian